person’s spirituality. Rather, it is talk with the living God! And to talk with the living God is, for Israel, to know God’s name. By convention, I will in what follows refer to this personal name of God (YHWH) as “the LORD.” I am, however, mindful of the inadequacy of this convention for expressing what the divine name expressed in Israel—however much we may be told that the convention is traceable to a reverential move designed to protect God’s name against misuse (which, in turn, reveals how much