Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Philip,

> "All Bible Societies in the world use the Masoretic Text for Old
> Testament translations and note the variants in the footnotes".
>
> Would you agree with the above statement?

HH: No, I wouldn't. It's not true. Many translations seek what they 
believe was the original reading, and that may be preserved in the 
LXX, the DSS, or possibly something else. Translations occasionally 
resort to emendations on the assumption that the preserved readings 
are not original but testify to the presumed original reading of the 
Hebrew.

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard