Editing Yahweh (section)

==Name==
The deity's name was written in [[Paleo-Hebrew]] as {{lang|he-Phnx|𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄}} ({{Script/Hebrew|{{lang|hbo|יהוה}}}} in [[Hebrew alphabet|block script]]), transliterated as [[YHWH]]; modern scholarship has reached consensus to transcribe this as "Yahweh".<ref>{{harvnb|Alter|2018|p=<!--unpaginated-->}}: "The strong consensus of biblical scholarship is that the original pronunciation of the name YHWH{{nbsp}}... was Yahweh."</ref> The shortened forms ''Yeho''-, ''Yahu''-, ''[[Jah|Yah]]''- and ''Yo''-  appear in [[Theophory in the Bible#Yah theophory|personal names]] and in phrases such as "[[Hallelujah|Hallelu''jah'']]!"{{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']]{{hair space}}", led to increasingly strict prohibitions on speaking or writing the term. Rabbinic sources suggest that, by the [[Second Temple period]], the name of God was officially pronounced only once a year by the [[High Priest of Israel|High Priest]] on the [[Day of Atonement]].<ref>{{harvnb|Elior|2006|p=779}}: "...{{nbsp}}the pronunciation of the Ineffable Name was one of the climaxes of the Sacred Service: it was entrusted exclusively to the High Priest once a year on the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies."</ref> After the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)|destruction of Jerusalem in 70{{nbsp}}CE]], the original pronunciation of the name was forgotten entirely.{{sfn|Leech|2002|p=60}}