Your sources are not as aurhoritive as you may want. See below.
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From: "Harold Holmyard" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
HH: All right. Thanks. You're saying that what seems quite certain toThis researcher first said that the pronunciation was lost before 70 AD, then cited sources from after as proof.
you is that the divine name had three syllables, with the second one
being "o." Most scholars, according to reports both Catholic,
Protestant, and Jewish, apparently believe that two syllables is closer
to the original sound, though some allow that it could have been three
syllables:
http://www.bible-researcher.com/driver1.html
http://www.jesuswalk.com/names-god/yahweh_jehovah.htmThis author simply takes the Yehweh pronunciation for granted, gives no evidence for it.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08329a.htmThis author cites unnamed scholarly consensus and some of their reasons. But he acknowledges that this is not proof.
http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/ii.xxviii.ii.htmmmRehash of the same arguments as above.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=52&letter=NThis author takes the HWH root as the reason for the pronunciation.
Is YHWH from the verb HWH? Conjecture, some would call it the root fallacy.
Was the Hebrew pronunciation similar to the Samaritan? Contradicted by the early Greek transcriptions. The Samaritan pronunciation could have been a way to say the name without really saying it.
Ancient Greek transliterations, while good enough to show that they contradict the Samaritan pronunciation, the lack of the H sound make them an uncertain source. In other words, they don't contradict my conjectured pronunciation of "Yahohe", nor "Yahwey", nor "Yahoweh". Or more accurately, evidence for all three of these pronunciations could be adduced from one or more of these trascriptions.
From the theophoric use in names, I come to the conclusion thatYHWH was originally pronounced Yahohe or something similar. But this is conjecture, no less so than the conjectured pronunciations listed above, and I expect other people to disagree.
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