Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 16/06/2004 14:47, Philip Engmann wrote:

> If there is one book that would have likely been subject to tampering,
> it would be Isaiah, and most especially Isaiah 53.  And yet the
> comparison of the Great Isaiah Scroll and the Masoretic Text shows an
> incredible textual agreement, with many of the non-dialect differences
> simply being obvious errors in the Qumran scroll, and very few
> differences
> of great significance.  (Main source -- Fred Miller web site).
>
> 1. Where is this Fred Miller website?
>
>  
Try http://www.ao.net/~fmoeller/.

> Ironically, in fact, as the article by Daniel Sapp points out.
> "The LXX, 1 QIsa, and Mt Versions of Isaiah 53 and the Christian
> Doctrine of Atonement" in "Jesus and the Suffering Servant - Isaiah 53
> and Christian Origins" ,..... the Christians would have a great
> difficulty doctrinally with the Greek text ! And not the Masoretic Text
> or the DSS.
>
> 2. Can you reference the article by Daniel Sapp? 
>  

Steven/Schmuel gives the following details at 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-greek/2002-December/023703.html:

> The article that really hits your question on the nail-head is in..
>
> Jesus and the Suffering Servant, Isaiah 53 and Christian Origins,  1998
> Edited by William H. Bellinger Jr. and William R. Farmer..
>
> (A collection of essays presented at the Conference on Isaiah 53
>  and Christian Origins held at Baylor University in February 1996.)
>
> Chapter 11
> The LXX, 1 QIsa, and MT Versions of Isaiah 53
> by Daniel A. Sapp, graduate of the doctoral program at Southwestern Baptist 
> Theological Seminary
>  



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