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For example, the letter shin was used on Maccabean coins for shanat, the constructive form of “year,” followed by the number.

Also in a trial for blasphemy, the senior witnesses pronounced the divine name if it had been used by the blasphemer (M. Sanhedrin VI,5). Some scholars—relying on the Mishnah, Sotah 7.6, and the Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 71a—believe the high priest used it in the daily priestly blessing.

Helmut Rix, ed., Etruskische Texte, vol. 2, Tarquinia (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1991), 1.95.

S. Kazan, “Isaac of Antioch’s Homily Against the Jews,” Oriens Christianus 49 (1965), p. 59.