[b-hebrew] barak (bless? curse?) in the Book of Job

Harold Holmyard hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 30 13:15:33 EST 2009


Karl,
>
>
>     HH: The changes, if they occurred after the original composition
>     of the
>     text, could have been a hundred or more years before the Dead Sea
>     Scrolls.
>
>
> That's theory. What do the DSS actually say?
>
> Now I realize that the DSS are often quite fragmentary, and it is 
> possible that none of the tiqune sopherim show up in the DSS, but have 
> the DSS actually been checked for them? 
HH: I don't know, Karl. You'll have to research that for yourself. I saw 
that some comparisons have been made between the great Isaiah Scroll and 
claims about changes in the divine name, but that is not the tiqqune 
sopherim. The Sopherim are believed to have established the text, and 
they finished their work in about 300 B.C. So textual evidence of what 
existed before their work should not be expected in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard



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