Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

Maybe the guy is dyslexic, or maybe he has textual doubts about the 
pointing of the word "Masoretic", so let's give him the benefit of the 
doubt on that one and see what he is trying to say...

Cutting through the dead wood, I see that he is trying to argue that 
the "original Hebrew" is best preserved in an Old Latin text preserved 
by the Waldensian church, and that Jewish commentators support that 
view. Well, I would want to check whether the variants in such a text 
were theologically motivated changes e.g. to make explicit the Virgin 
Birth. (But then LXX could be considered to do that.) But there just 
could be some original readings preserved.

Are there any experts on the list who can comment on the existence and 
state of any such Old Latin text of the Hebrew scriptures? Or on what 
doubt is cast on the MT by Jewish commentators?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Textual Criticism
Author:  <elbourne AT earthlink.net> at Internet
Date:    19/10/1999 13:51


I am on another discussion group where the topic of Textual criticism has 
arisen. I was wondering if anyone would like to respond to the posts by one 
individual in particular. I will not pass along his name but his post is 
below.


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Dear Brothers and Sisters, as there seems to be a very great interest just 
now on Old and New Testament Textual history, may  I ask this question:
Do you want me to give you a history of the Old Testament Canon from the 
Jewish historians and writers and their point of view?

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