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  • From: "Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[4]: cantillation makes a difference
  • Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 12:18:17 -0500


Dear Charles,

I think you have missed my point in speaking of "the NT reading". The
NT readings in three places (like the LXX reading) are I think
completely ambiguous, if you ignore the punctuation - and I don't
think anyone claims that the NT punctuation as we have it is original.
Yes, there is an "obvious" exegetical choice to understand the NT
texts as the voice being in the desert, but this is Christian
interpretation rather than the texts, and may actually be wrong - the
point intended by the gospel authors may well have been that John the
Baptist's work was to prepare the road in the desert rather than to
speak in the desert.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[3]: cantillation makes a difference
Author: <cisbell AT home.com> at Internet
Date: 01/02/2000 13:58

<snip>

The Hebrew text is obvious as it stands, and I think rather obvious as well
is the Christian exegetical choice to perceive John the Baptizer as "Elijah"
(whose wilderness habitat was well known), the one who anticipates the
arrival of "the day of YHWH" (Mal 3:23). I believe it was this exegetical
decision that determined the NT reading rather than an alternate possibility
from an unpointed Hebrew text.

<snip>





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