[{"id":"Q01","question":"Which securely dated witness first uses independent YHW, rather than a personal-name component?","rationale":"Determines whether shortened theonym is early.","evidence_needed":"Primary dated inscriptions; textual critical editions; excavation context.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q02","question":"Did YHWH precede YHW or YHW precede YHWH?","rationale":"Different developmental narratives.","evidence_needed":"Chronological corpus and explanatory phonological derivation.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q03","question":"What is the exact Clement Laurentianus Greek letter sequence?","rationale":"Often cited but potentially editorially altered.","evidence_needed":"High-resolution manuscript + complete critical apparatus.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q04","question":"What is earliest secure evidence for Iaoue independently of Clement?","rationale":"Tests direct vowel reconstruction.","evidence_needed":"Dated Greek manuscripts, patristic textual editions.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q05","question":"Did Greek ΙΑΩ record a full theonym or contracted one?","rationale":"Central to interpretation of Qumran.","evidence_needed":"Translation strategy comparative corpus; 4Q120 editorial history.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q06","question":"How were Hebrew waw and word-final he pronounced in Iron Age Judah and Israel?","rationale":"Critical consonant and vowel assumptions.","evidence_needed":"Comparative Northwest Semitic phonology and foreign transcriptions.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q07","question":"What grammatical derivations of YHWH from *hwy/*hyh are regular?","rationale":"Avoid ad hoc vowel assignment.","evidence_needed":"Historical morphology and sound laws.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q08","question":"How do Yeho-, Yo-, -yahu, -yah distributions vary with period and geography?","rationale":"Might uncover diachronic pattern.","evidence_needed":"Epigraphic corpus tagged by place and secure date.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q09","question":"What can later Masoretic pointing genuinely preserve about Iron Age vowels?","rationale":"Distinguishes ancient spoken forms from reading tradition.","evidence_needed":"Vocalization manuscript comparison and qere studies.","priority":"medium"},{"id":"Q10","question":"How accurately did Theodoret represent the Samaritans he described?","rationale":"Historical source reliability.","evidence_needed":"Samaritan liturgical texts, textual criticism, late-antique polemical context.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q11","question":"Can an alternative form such as Yahwoh predict independently attested transcriptions?","rationale":"Tests minority theory quantitatively.","evidence_needed":"Original Caquot paper, phonological modeling.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q12","question":"Is Egyptian Shasu Yhw connected to the divine name at all?","rationale":"May alter the earliest chronological evidence.","evidence_needed":"Egyptological philology, toponymic corpus, contextual archaeology.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q13","question":"Is the final he a vowel letter, consonant, or historical trace?","rationale":"Crucial to Yahweh/Yahwah/Yahwoh.","evidence_needed":"Comparative orthography and transcriptions.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q14","question":"Which forms can be rejected by regular sound changes rather than subjective plausibility?","rationale":"Falsifiability of candidate testing.","evidence_needed":"Explicit phonological constraints and corpus-based evaluation.","priority":"high"},{"id":"Q15","question":"Can scholars devise a non-circular confidence score for candidate reconstructions?","rationale":"Avoids circular evidence selection.","evidence_needed":"Blinded candidate scoring by multiple experts with preregistered criteria.","priority":"medium"},{"id":"Q16","question":"How does theological wordplay in Exodus relate to historical etymology?","rationale":"Separates literary semantics from historical morphology.","evidence_needed":"Comparative readings and literary diachronic study.","priority":"medium"},{"id":"Q17","question":"Were multiple pronunciations used by different communities simultaneously?","rationale":"Avoids false single-pronunciation assumption.","evidence_needed":"Samaritan, Aramaic, Jewish-Greek parallel witnesses.","priority":"medium"},{"id":"Q18","question":"Which name glosses are secure, and which have unresolved Hebrew verbal roots?","rationale":"Prevents hidden false certainty in onomastics.","evidence_needed":"Individual philological dictionaries and edition notes.","priority":"medium"}]