Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 16/06/2004 22:04, Philip Engmann wrote:

> For in fact there are Greek fragments from the 1st century CE,
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> among the DSS, and I rather think there are some older ones. But these
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> fragments are clearly different from the text now published as the LXX,
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> e.g. Rahlfs' edition.
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> *1. Do you have any examples?*
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> Philip Engmann.
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I didn't have anything immediately to hand, but from a quick search came 
across http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/downloads/inductive/app1.pdf, which 
gives three different texts of one chapter (21 verses). Note the following:

> The Lucianic Recension
> LXXL differs from LXX in every verse except verse 2, a total of 
> forty-nine deviations.


The Lucianic recension is not strictly an older MS. I don't have details 
to hand on the readings of the really old MSS like Papyrus Fouad, but I 
know you will find significant differences from Rahlfs' text.

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