...Thank you. But I note from Yitzhak that in the Mesha stele there is also a final he mater lectionis for a probable "a" vowel in BLLH. So this suggests that the final vowel of YHWH, with he as a mater lectionis, could have well been "a", and by no means rules out final "e".
No, there is not. The earliest epigraphic evidence we have of the
Tetragrammaton is in Mesha. But there, where, as I have written, matres
lectionis are used only partially, final he's are used for the vowel o. So
if the final he in YHWH was intended as a mater lectionis, it would have
been pronounced Yahwoh. But I don't think it was. Which is why I think that
all four letters of the Tetragrammaton were pronounced as consonants, and
that the Name was never taken to be a verb (even if it is etymologically
related to the verb HYH/HWH).
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