Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

Peter Kirk wrote

> >
> Jim, I don't know how you understand the LXX of this line, but it 
> seems to me to support Kelton's suggestion - which is of course far 
> from a new one even in modern times, e.g. NRSV renders "until tribute 
> comes to him". LXX reads:
>
> hEWS AN ELQHi TA APOKEIMENA AUTWi
>
> literally "until come the stored things to him". AUTWi is certainly 
> "to him" and clearly supports a reading with a separate Hebrew word 
> LOH. TA APOKEIMENA suggests a slightly different interpretation of $Y 
> than Kelton's, but could well be a rendering of the same word.


The issue first raised was on the propriety of dividing the word 
differently than it stands in MT.  LXX doesn't support a differing 
division.   Further, "weloh" occurs after "shiloh"- so unless you see 
some sort of dittography, you still haven't demonstrated that the LXX 
supports an emendation.

Jim

Jim West
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Quartz Hill School of Theology

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