Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Masoretic vocalization of the name
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:03:40 +0300
> >Reading YHWH with Masoretic pointing yields more or less the same Iaoa as
the attested ancient pronunciations.
>
> This is not an attested ancient pronunciation. I have seen no ancient
> examples with a final A vowel, except for something like AIA.
>
I mean, sure, that Iaoa is more or less the same as Iao, likely Iao+hey.