Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Philip Engmann" <phil-eng AT ighmail.com>]

Comparison of the MT and LXX Quotations of Deuteronomy 32:43
1.   There is a difference between the LXX quotation of Deuteronomy
32:43 and the MT quotation of Deuteronomy 32:43. The difference is that
the phrase, 'kai prokunesatwan autw pantes aggeloi theoi' [1], [2], [3],
[4] exists in LXX Deuteronomy 32:43, but not in MT Deuteronomy 32:43. 
 
2.  The Dead Sea Scroll (DSS) 4QDeutq matches the LXX of Deuteronomy
32:43.
 
3.  According to the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,[5] in DSS 4QDeutq
the LXX Deuteronomy 32:43 phrase, 'kai prokunesatwan autw pantes aggeloi
theoi' is rendered, 'whshthww lo (cl) elohim' vel 'bny xl' in DSS
4QDeutq. 
 
4.   I have been unable to decipher what vel means in the Sigla Et
Compendia Apparatum of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia.
 
5. Does this mean that in DSS 4QDeutq, mlk (meaning aggeloi) is missing
in DSS 4QDeutq?   
 
 
Thanks,     
 
Philip Engmann.


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[1] The LXX shows a number of variants in this verse. For the
above-mentioned phrase, panteV is lacking in Codex Vaticanus and uioi
becomes aggeloi in Codex Ambrosianus. (Source: Swete, The OT in Greek:
Volume 1, 1901). Rahlfs's LXX does not index Codex Ambrosianus.9
[2] Henry Barclay Swete, Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914), Page ____  (London:
1900), www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc03/htm/i.htm. 
[3]Alfred Rahlfs, The United Bible Societies Septuaginta,
http://www.linguistsoftware.com/lxx.htm,
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/versions.htm. 
[4]Codex Ambrosianus, G. 58 supplement, Ambrosian Library, Agobardinum
Corpus, Milan10th-11th Century,
http://www.tertullian.org/manuscripts/ambrosianus.htm.
[5] A. Alt, O. Eibfeldt, P. Kahle, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,
(Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1990) Page 348.
A. Alt, O. Eibfeldt, P. Kahle, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Sigla Et
Compendia Apparatum (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1990). Pages
xlv, xlvii and xlix.