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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] MT for all OT Translations?
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:22:54 -0500

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




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