Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Do you perhaps refer to Ulrich's book?  I think it was called 
something like the text of Samuel in the Dead Sea Scrolls and 
Josephus or something like that.  In any case, that book was 
actually a preliminary edition of some of the Samuel DSS and is 
now part of the DJD series under a different name...I can't really list 
bib info either, but the consensus I've seen (with a dissenter or two, 
of course, that's the nature of the beast) is that the LXX has 
preserved a more accurate text in Samuel than MT has.  Your 
mileage may vary.

> I don't remember the bibilographical details, but I read one monograph
> comparing MT Samuel and the LXX, the thesis of which was that one was no
> better than the other.
> Sincerely,
> Jonathan D. Safren
> Dept. of Biblical Studies
> Beit Berl College
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
> To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Septuagint Original
> 
> 
> > One book where we know there are serious problems with the
> > Hebrew text and the LXX seems to preserve something closer to
> > the original is Samuel.  The Samuel mss. among the Dead Sea
> > Scrolls often reflect the LXX text over against MT, especially in
> > places where the MT text has been suspect for centuries.  To me
> > this suggests that the corruptions we see may have arisen some
> > time after the production of the DSS, but it's only a suggestion.
> >
> > Dave Washburn
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> > This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do
> with it.
> >                   -Emerson
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Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with 
it.
                  -Emerson