Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Don Elbourne" <elbourne AT earthlink.net>]

Peter,

You are correct. I just found out he is dyslexic. So I'm glad I did not slam
him. I too wanted to hear what he has to say and was hoping to get some help
from those on the list that are more versed at the non-Hebrew and
pre-masoretic textual transmission than I am. I can not post his subsequent
argument in full because the staff of the B-Hebrew list informed me that
doing so is a violation of the rules.

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.simplenet.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter_kirk AT sil.org [mailto:peter_kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 7:14 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: Textual Criticism
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> <snip>
> 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?
>
> <snip>
>
>
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