Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>]

The view that you have stated seems to be a very mechanical, artificial,
rationalistic, western, non-biblical view of inspiration, but very much in 
line with
American evangelicalism.  It is not my view of inspiration.
Lee R. Martin

peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG wrote:

> This prompts a controversial suggestion which I would like to float,
> not as my fixed opinion but as an idea I am toying with: The works in
> the Hebrew Bible can be considered as having arrived at a stable and
> generally accepted canonical form only with the formation of the
> proto-Masoretic text type (as already witnessed at Qumran, e.g. in the
> Isaiah scroll). Therefore the text form which should be considered
> "inspired" (in whatever sense anyone might want to take that) is this
> proto-Masoretic text, and the textual basis for Christian (and
> presumably Jewish, though I cannot speak for that) teaching and for
> general purpose Bible translations should be the proto-Masoretic text.
> Therefore (except of course for scholarly research) LXX, Samaritan
> Pentateuch and other early variant texts and versions derived from
> them should be used only for clarification of MT and not to correct
> the text, except where there is good reason to believe that the MT
> does not reflect the proto-MT. I would include the Masoretic
> vocalisation in this to the extent that it can be considered an
> accurate reflection of the vocalisation understood by those who
> stabilised the proto-MT.
>
> Comments?
>
> Peter Kirk
>
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> Subject: Re: Hebrew vowel pointings in the MT
> Author:  atombomb AT sirius.com at internet
> Date:    07/04/1999 13:03
>
> Andrew Kulikovsky wrote:
>
> > Only the autographs are inspired.
>
> Andrew:  Your other question (not quoted here) about the origin of the
> vowel pointings is a good one, but I would quibble with the aforegoing
> statement.  Only the autographs are inspired, unless the text belonged
> to, and in some sense was written by, a community which closed its canon
> (and I mean the canon of any single work) at a later stage in the process.
>
> Regards to all.
>
> John Burnett
>
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Lee R. Martin
Pastor, Prospect Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee
Instructor in Hebrew and Old Testament
Church of God Theological Seminary
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