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For consideration, probably just a decade or two ago, the "Yahweh" usage
would have
likely been the almost-overwhelming consensus on a scholarly forum, and we
have also in
the last decades seen it make its way into various translations, from the catholic Jerusalem Bible to the Everett Fox translation to others. It was becoming mainstream (socalled "sacred
name" or "qodesh name" Bibles had been using various such forms for 50 years).
Yet now we see a major turn-around, and to put it a bit indelicately, the promoters and defenders of "Yahweh" for the Tetragrammaton are a bit on the defensive, and the scholarship has shifted rather radically to at least a strong level of simpatico to the three-syllable "Yehowah/Yehovah" forms. And this is shown even on a scholarly forum like this one, possibly the most advanced discussions of the issues anywhere. And some
of the credit should, I believe, go to three writers on the topic, Gerard
Gertoux, Nehemiah
Gordon and Carl Franklin, all defending forms close to Yehovah, while the "Yahweh" scholarship has been rather stagnant.
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If one decided on a two-syllable form, there would be NO starting vowels at all. It seems that "Yahweh" would be one of a dozen or so possible forms, and one that has a major problem to begin with (multi-syllabic Theophoric names invariably start
with "Yeh", per the pages on the Gerard Gertoux paper). It only exists as
one scholarly
reconstruction, hard to defend.
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