Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>]

At 03:43 PM 4/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I thought I understood, or at least knew how to figure out,  the
>text-critical apparatus in BHS, but I  have come across the following
>two issues that have let me know how little I know.
>
>1) What is the difference in what the editor is communicating by the
>following two comments?
>"a-a > LXX*, add"  and "a-a > LXX*, prb dl"

What is the reference?

>
>2) I have found a couple of comments that read, "an a (gamma) add?"
>where (gamma) stands for the letter gamma, but I have not been able to
>confirm what the letter gamma refers to here.

Again, what is the reference?  Gamma generally refers to the "three
interpreters" (Aquila, Theodotion, and Origen- and their texts)

>
>Thanks!
>Rodney

Best,

Jim
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