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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen 49:10
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:23:08 -0500



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
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
Quartz Hill School of Theology

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