divine name is distinguished from the rest of the text in being transliterated phonetically rather than translated.29 I cannot here go into the details of scholarly discussion of how these various practices for handling the Tetragrammaton may have originated and developed at Qumran and elsewhere in ancient Jewish circles.30 For instance, did the practice of using Paleo-Hebrew characters originate in the Qumran community texts and then spread to copies of biblical texts? Did the Qumran scribes follow