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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: kgraham0938 AT comcast.net, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen 49:10
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:16:18 -0500



kgraham0938 AT comcast.net wrote:

KIY YFBO' $IYLOH

Douglas Steward has an interesting take on this passage. He suggest that
$IYLOH, may not be one word. He says remove the vowels from Shiloh and
seperart the Shin/yod from the Lamed.

He says that SY by itself means gifts, presents, or gifts.

Though I am somewhat sympathetic to hypothetical emendation, I think in order for it to have staying power, it has to be reflected textually somewhere. That is, in one of the Hebrew ms or in one of the versions somewhere needs to translate accordingly. I say this because if the word were differently divided in any textual tradition, translators would have seen it. Is Steward's emendation present in any of the versions? Not according to BHS (which only notes that some mss of the Sam. Pent. omit the yod). Even the LXX's rendering maintains the unity of the syllables.

Best

Jim


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