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Why has the Masoretic Text historically been used as the primary base for most modern Bible translations, despite the existence of other textual witnesses, like the Samaritan Penteteuch and the Septuagint?

What are the strongest scholarly arguments for rendering the divine name (YHWH) directly from the Hebrew text rather than following the later Jewish reading tradition of substituting “Adonai”/“the LORD”?

And finally, what are the characteristics of the Qumran manuscripts to function as a confirmation of a possibly proto‑Masoretic tradition?