Nehemia Gordon believes the Tetragrammaton was/should be pronounced as Yehovah/Yehowah, based upon his notion that the Karaite Baâal ha-Masorah, Aharon ben-Mosheh ben-Asher, would not have in good conscious defiled the Miqâra.
This might very well be the case, but this does not account for the various places within the Aleppo Codex where the Tetragrammaton is written with different pronunciations (Yhowah is used 29 times | Yehwih is used 304 times | Yehowih is used once at Judges 16:28 | Yhowih is used 23 times | Yhwih is used 207 times | Yhwah is used 6,268 times). Then, again, maybe the name has different pronunciations at different locations due to the language used in those locations, but this still would not account for Nehemia Gordon's stance on the subject.
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