Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Andrew Kulikovsky <anku AT CelsiusTech.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG [mailto:peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

> I suspect that the LXX translators (not native speakers of Hebrew and 
> working from a consonantal text) missed the nuances and read weyiqtol 
> for wayyiqtol. As for the Qumran commentary, its writers 
> reinterpreted 
> the Chaldeans as the Kittim or Romans, and so they had to reinterpret 
> the Hebrew text as entirely prophetic and future from Habbakuk's 
> viewpoint.

Um...How do you know who the LXX translators were? And how do you know they
were'nt native Hebrew speakers?

cheers,
Andrew
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