Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

Dear Randall,

Are you, or is anyone else, seriously propounding the view that the 
Hebrew text of Job was a translation and that the Aramaic found at 
Qumran is (something like) the original?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: targums (More Jack)
Author:  ButhFam AT compuserve.com at internet
Date:    18/05/1999 13:45

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their lack was NOT accidental, as can be concluded from the many 
non-biblical aramaic texts recovered, plus multiple copies of Job (one from 
cave 11, one from cave 4), also known from LXX job 42.17 and rabbinic 
stories. Job was apparently "special", and i'll leave it to y'all to figure 
out why a central literary aramaic dialect of such a text would have been 
in circulation and found its way to Judea and Qumran.

yisge shlamxon
randall buth

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