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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Psalm 22:16 like a lion they mauled, the emendation question
  • Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:53:51 -0600


> At 08:20 AM 9/16/02 -0600, you wrote:
> > > A statement was made that the DSS did not contain Ps. 22:16. In "The
> > > Dead
> > > Sea Scrolls Bible" the verse is listed. It states that the phrase in
> > > the
> > > MS they have has "they have pierced" and not "like a lion" as in most
> > > Hebrew MSS. Anyone have any further information on this?
> > >
> >Psalm 22:16, in a fairly fragmentary state, is preserved in 4QPs(f) and is
> >published in DJD 16, transcription on page 88. The reading is uncertain;
> >the
> >DJD transcription shows 2 uncertain letters in this word, KR, followed by
> >W in
> >brackets (indicating a restoration by the editor). So it looks like this:
> >
> >K?R?[W
> >
> >I'm guessing that the reason the DSS Bible reads "they pierced" is because
> >the
> >aleph appears to have been elided, something that likely wouldn't happen
> >with
> >the word for "lion." I'd be inclined to agree, but wouldn't go to the
> >stake for it.
>
>
> It has been a while since I looked at it on the photos that Eisenman put
> out, but I recall that the aleph was fairly clear but that the last letter
> had a mark through it and could be either a yod or a vov, possible a long
> yod. The general quality of the scribe of that fragment was not impressive.
>
I haven't seen the Eisenman photo, but I'd suggest a look at the
plate in DJD 16 as well. It's either plate XIII or XIV, I don't have it in
front of me at the moment. I'm going by the transcription on page
88.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Don't let your mind wander.
It's too little to be left alone."






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