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  • From: Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: original language of "Maccabeans"
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:39:07 -0600




Jim West wrote:
>
> At 10:49 AM 1/19/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >Thank you Jim West for your letter 0n 11:12 18/01/99 +0000.
> >>As the 4 maccabean texts were not composed in Hebrew, they found no place
> >>in
> >>the Hebrew canon.
> >>Jim
> >>
> >
> > Do you have a source for this assumption?
> >
>
> I presumed it was common knowledge- like the fact that Ben Sira WAS composed
> in Hebrew. First, the language of the maccabean materials is NOT
> translation Greek, reflecting an earlier Hebrew Vorlage. Second, there is
> not a shred of evidence supporting the idea that these texts were written in
> Hebrew. And third, there is not, to my knowledge, a SINGLE copy of these
> texts in Hebrew predating the oldest Greek materials.

What about the Hebrew copy of 1 Mac that Jerome knew? A translation?

Jack
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