Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Sunday 09 February 2003 21:25, Schmuel wrote:
> 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" :-)

Depends on one's definition of "interesting" I suppose :-)  I don't have the 
actual wording at hand, that's just what the brief textual note in my book 
says.  The fragment itself is in DJD volume 1, page 65.  You're probably 
closer to a library with that volume than I am, but if not, I might be able 
to track it down in the next few days.  Let me know.

> >  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).
>

I stand corrected ;-)

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Dave Washburn
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