Yahweh Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Name== The god's name was written in [[Paleo-Hebrew alphabet|paleo-Hebrew]] as ''π€π€π€ π€'' ({{Script/Hebrew|ΧΧΧΧ}} in [[Hebrew alphabet|block script]]), [[transliteration|transliterated]] as [[YHWH]]; modern scholarship has reached consensus to [[transcription (linguistics)|transcribe]] this as "Yahweh".{{sfn|Alter|2018|p=unpaginated|ps=, "The strong consensus of biblical scholarship is that the original pronunciation of the name YHWH ... was Yahweh."}} The shortened forms "'''Yeho'''-", "'''Yahu'''-" and "'''Yo'''-" appear in [[Theophory in the Bible#Yah theophory|personal names]] and in phrases such as "[[Hallelujah|Hallelu<u>jah</u>]]!"{{sfn|Preuss|2008|p=823}} The sacrality of the name, as well as the [[Ten Commandments|Commandment]] against "[[Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain|taking the name 'in vain']]", led to increasingly strict prohibitions on speaking or writing the term. Rabbinic sources suggest that, by the [[Second Temple Judaism|Second Temple period]], the name of God was pronounced only once a year, by the high priest, on the [[Yom Kippur|Day of Atonement]].<ref>The Cambridge History of Judaism: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period, p. 779. William David Davies, Louis Finkelstein, Steven T. Katz β 2006 "(BT Kidd 7ia). The historical picture described above is probably wrong because the Divine Names were a priestly ... Name was one of the climaxes of the Sacred Service: it was entrusted exclusively to the High Priest once a year on theβ¦"</ref> After the destruction of Jerusalem in [[Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)|70 CE]], the original pronunciation of the name was forgotten entirely.{{sfn|Leech|2002|p=60}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page