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  • From: Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Reliability of Josephus, compared with NT and MT
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 21:27:32 +0200


At 14.09 17/07/99 -0400, peter_kirk AT sil.org wrote:
>Well, Josephus may have claimed to be translating Hebrew originals.
>His claim looks a little thin when he is at that point (AJ 10,10,6)
>making a very abbreviated precis of an Aramaic original (Daniel 4) -
>or perhaps he didn't know the difference between Hebrew and Aramaic?

You still should read Garbini's article on Biblical Aramaic. He carves
Daniel's so-called Persian chancelry Aramaic as being a poor effort in
simulation. If it were reworked at the same time as Ezra, then we have a
basic date for Daniel's Aramaic, ie post-Josephus.


Ian

>;-) Josephus would not be the last person who claimed to be
>translating the Bible from the original but was actually rephrasing an
>existing translation, and he was clearly a man capable of such
>"economy with the truth".
>
>So to continue the important digression (not a "red herring") we have
>got into, and to extend the comparison to the Hebrew Scriptures (as
>appropriate to this list) as well as to the New Testament, see my
>comments interspersed below.





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