Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Schmuel <schmuel AT escape.com>]

Shalom b-Hebrew,

Schmuel
>> >2 Samuel 21:19 (KJV)
>> >And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,
>> >here Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite,
>> >slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
>> >the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam."

Dave Washburn
>LXX doesn't in the Samuel passage.  it reads EPATAXEN...TON GOLIAQ...  
>Vulgate likewise lacks it.  It reads "percu Correct.  1Q7 stops at verse 18, 
>though the extant part tends toward the wording in Chronicles, so some 
>speculation might be possible from that (but  speculation is all it would 
>be).

Schmuel
Thanks for sharing..
May I inquire about this speculation ?
Are there any specific words or verses in that DSS 2 Samuel section that 
agree with Chronicles against the Masoretic Text of 2 Samuel? 
 (That would seem to be key to transforming just "speculation" into 
"interesting speculation" :-)

Dave
>  Coffee-stains?  More likely too much bat guano ;-)

Schmuel
I meant Charlesworth and all the other scholars, in their careful keeping of 
the scrolls
the first 25 years or so :-)  (no slight meant, just heard that they tended 
to be a little
on the loose side).

Shalom,
Schmuel

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