Biblical Hebrew Forum

[CS Bartholomew <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

Reading *J.A. Fitzmyer's discussion of this text the one question I wanted
answered was not addressed. Looking over the entire content of 1QSa I cannot
figure out what the justification is for supplying  )l as the agent of
ywlyd. From a discourse perspective )l does not appear elsewhere as an
explicit agent-participant in 1QSa.

I know there has been much discussion about how to read ywlyd but what I
would like to know is what basis is there for supplying )l after ywlyd?

1QSa 2:11-12
[h]w)   [zh mw]#b )n#y h#M [qry)y ]mw(d l(ct hyxd )M ywlyd [)l ]
)[t ]hm#yx )tM   ybw)[ hkwhN ]rw)# kwl (dt y#r)l wkwl

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew 
 
*Page 84, The Dead Sea scrolls and Christian origins / Joseph A. Fitzmyer.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2000.