Justin Sledge, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Alex, thank you for having me on.

Am I right in thinking that we don't even know how Yaway is supposed to be pronounced?

No, we don't know. The last people to have a tradition of how to pronounce the name

Yawe, again, Yawe is just an academic vocalization for this, for the Israelike God God but the last time anyone had any

sort of tradition about how that was actually pronounced was 2,000 years ago

was the the folks in the the old Jerusalem temple but with the destruction of the

priesthood that would have pronounced that name once a year the tradition is

totally amputated so no it's been lost.

So where did we get this yaw away from? I mean we know what some of the letters are but why is it that although we have a that the sort of written name we wouldn't know how it's pronounced?

So it's basically we take the we take Yalway and the

reason why we use that is because that is typically how noun sequences like that

would have been constructed in Hebrew with the a a sound and so it's just really typical for for names to follow that vowel construction and so we just shove those vowels in there because that seems to be the best guess at a

vocalization. Also vocalizations change enormously over time and the earliest

attestation that we might have of something like the name Yawe is probably closer to Yahoo in an

Egyptian and a specifically Egyptian inscription. So we don't know but there's been

lots of attempts that you know vocalizing this name

Jehovah being the most famous right we take the vowels of Adonai and then shove them in German into into this and sort of look at it sideways and you get Jehovah out of the deal.

So there are lots of ways of trying to make this name pronounceable, but the original pronunciation is totally lost.

In fact, we don't even know what the name means. the original pronunciation is totally lost.

In fact, we don't even know what the name means.

It seems to be connected to the Hebrew word Haya,

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