Peter,No, it is not the case in the image in http://www.torahresource.com/Newsletter/Ps22.16.pdf. The letter in question is immediately followed by an undisputed yod which is about one third of the length, and this is a consistent distinction between all the vavs and yods in this fragment. This is true not only of the highlighted line, which has been tidied up a bit, but also of the line below where the letters YBY+W YR)W BY (from v.18 Hebrew) are clearly legible. All the vavs are full length, all the yods are significantly shorter.
What if there was something to the fact that since the W and Y in the DSS
often look the same, then the actual reading of the DSS may not at all
disagree with the MT or suggest an alternative reading? In the DSS, the Y is
often written in exactly the same fashion as the W. Is that not the case in
the scroll(s) containing this passage?
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