Rolf,
I find your argument that there is "no evidence that 'adonay was used as
a substitute for YHWH in the last centuries BCE" somewhat unconvincing
but I wanted to give it a fair chance so I did a little research and
quickly found a relevant article by a rabbi I believe is an orthodox
Jew, Eric Levy. The article on the Psalms from Qumran can be found here
www.ericlevy.com/Hodayot%20from%20Qumran%202.doc
<http://www.ericlevy.com/Hodayot%20from%25%E2%80%8B20Qumran%25%E2%80%8B202.doc>
.
Rabbi Levy notes that while the Dead Sea Scrolls often made use of the
Tetragrammaton, the Qumran community “took great pains to avoid using
the Tetragrammaton” (p. 13).Adding, “The Tetragrammaton is never used in
the Hodayot, although it appears in apocryphal and canonical psalms
scrolls found (and perhaps copied) at Qumran” (p. 14) and that the
Tetragrammaton is frequently replaced by Adonai (p. 16).
I can accept that the scribes did not always avoid using Tetragrammaton
but it seems dishonest to say they did not find ways to avoid using it.
Sincerely,
Michael Abernathy
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