Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 23/01/2005 02:23, Jim West wrote:

> 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.
Well, Jim, if I haven't made myself clear I will do so now. Yes, LXX 
does support a different word division from MT. The WLW following $YLH 
is in a separate clause, separated with "and" in both Hebrew and Greek, 
and is separately represented in LXX. LXX is here in fact a word for 
word rendering of MT, apart from the split of $YLH, with no reordering, 
as should be clear from the following comparative table of the second 
half of the verse (view with fixed width):

MT     LXX

(D KY  hEWS AN
YB)    ELQHi
$YLH   TA APOKEIMENA AUTWi
WLW    KAI AUTOS
YQHT   PROSDOKIA
(MYM   EQNWN

The only thing which is not a literal translation here is the nominative 
AUTOS for LW, where a dative might be expected. But this may have been a 
theological or linguistic adaptation, as "he [is] the expectation of the 
nations" may seem better than "to him [is] the expectation of the nations".

But if the LXX translators did not read $YLH as two words, something 
like $Y LW, then where did they get the AUTWi (before KAI) from?


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