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Does the contents of this article belong somewhere else?

I would recommend moving it to Yahweh. The articles are very similar at this point anyway.
But Yahweh deals with the name "Yahweh", so stuff about other Jewish names for God ("Adonai","Elohim","haShem") wouldn't seem to belong there...

One small point that likely belongs in a Talk page (but I'm too lazy to create one for a page that should disappear soon anyway) is that of the "YHVH" English rendering of the Tetragrammaton.

The Hebrew letter represented as "V" in this rendering is "vav" which, in Ancient Hebrew [if I understand correctly--I took Arabic, not Hebrew] was pronounced just like the ancient Roman "v" was pronounced--as a W. Is there any particular reason for rendering it "YHVH" instead of "YHWH"? Should we mention this point somewhere, or no?

Just added the hebrew lettering, if anyone wants to merge this page with another one please make sure to copy that bit over. Had to rummage around in unicode tables a bit to work it out. -BD

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