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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Chidon & Nacon
  • Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 05:35:02 +0200


>Anybody know why 1Ch 13:9 uses "threshing floor of Chidon" in place of 2Sa
>6:6 "trhreshing floor of Nacon"? What proposals have been given for this? Is
>LXX omission of Chidon due to this discrepancy? Why?


Hi Matthew.

As no-one has said anything about this question, I'll throw
my hat in.

The passage is in one of the sections I looked at when
contemplating the relationship between Sam/Kgs, Chr and
Josephus. I am inclined to read each of the three as
stemming from the same source and Josephus's rapid changes
from supporting one tradition and then the other suggests
that he was not randomly choosing between two sources, but
that he had a source which developed in the directions of
the canonical books in different ways.

As to Chidon and Nacon, you note that the LXX Chr doesn't
name the person, so doesn't support the Chidon variant.
But the LXX Sam name is Nwdab, which is a third variant.
It could be that one may have been the fruit of a defective
copy, the difference between a medial nun and a kaf is one
stroke and that of a kaf and a daleth is also one stroke.
However, the major problem is the vowel,

kydn
nkwn

We are starting to get too far if we contemplate a
metathesis as well. It's possible, but stretching it.

Josephus, incidentally, has Cheironos, which directly
supports the Chr variant.

And a second incidental: it is vaguely possible that
the LXX Sam Nwdab came from a reading of a defective
text, which the reader had to reconstruct, referring
to what seemed the nearest name he knew from 1 Chr 5:19.

There are numerous differences between names in Sam/Kgs
and Chr, yet the two sources are clearly related. Some
of these differences can be cleared up using LXX and
Josephus, as in this case, if Josephus's Cheironos is
indicative.

The name Toi in 2 Sam 8:9,10 is Tou in Chr, just as
Hyram in 1 Kgs 7:13 etc, is Huram in Chr. There were
problems in the Hellenistic period in distinguishing
between yod and waw, so we can see a simple scribal
confusion. At this level I think we need to consider
difficulties in the scribal process is a probable
candidate for many of the differences.


Ian



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  • Chidon & Nacon, Matthew Anstey, 08/29/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Chidon & Nacon, Ian Hutchesson, 08/30/2002

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