I'm actually shocked that people do believe that the Tiberian forms
(which, we have seen, do not match the LXX forms or the other
Masoretic forms) reflect pronunciation from 1,000 years earlier.
Of course that's the most obvious conclusion. The name originally had
three syllables, and by the time the Tiberian Masoretes recorded the
pronunciation, it had two.
Of the other possibilites, the most likely
is that the LXX does such a poor job recording transliterations that
we should not draw any conclusions from it. (In general,
transliterations are terrible guides to language, as I discuss at
length in my book, and as is well-known by linguists. If people want,
I'll try to post the evidence on-line.)
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