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  • From: Andrew Kulikovsky <anku AT CelsiusTech.com.au>
  • To: "'peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG'" <peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG>
  • Cc: 'b-hebrew' <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Re[2]: qumran (was ruth)
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:59:17 +0930


> -----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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