The pronunciation of the divine name represented by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, יהוה (YHWH), remains one of the most debated questions in biblical philology. Nehemia Gordon has argued that medieval Hebrew manuscripts preserve the pronunciation Yehovah, while the prevailing scholarly reconstruction has generally been Yahweh. The evidence deserves careful attention—but it does not make the pronunciation Yehovah incontestable. Gordon’s Manuscript […]