Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] ANE Myth and Torah

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ANE Myth and Torah
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:40:15 +1100

The textual evidence is ambiguous for the final two words in 32.8. MT has בני
ישראל (‘sons of Israel’) while 4Q37 at Qumran reads בני אלוהים (‘sons of God’
or ‘sons of gods’). The LXX reads αγγελων θεου (‘angels of God’), which is
often the way it translates ‘sons of God’. So there is good textual evidence
that the MT is perhaps itself an interpolation rather than the original
reading.

If that is the case and 4Q37 represents something closer to the original,
then one can see why it is proposed that the poem originally saw Yahweh as
one of the sons of El. Whether it’s a correct interpretation of the verse or
not is a different matter, but it’s not an uncommon understanding.


GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page