Imes. In her published doctoral dissertation, Bearing YHWH’s Name at Sinai: A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue,13 and her more popular level, Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Matters,14 Imes argues for a non-elliptical meaning of “bear the name of YHWH,” on the analogy of the use of the same verb when the high priest bore the names of Israel on his breastpiece and bore the name of YHWH on his forehead. “Bearing the name” meant representing the one(s) whose name(s) he bore. Accordingly,