Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

On 2/27/05 11:18 AM, "Jim West" <jwest AT highland.net> wrote:

> Not so much an oxymoron as a simple anachronism; since as every first
> semester Hebrew student knows, the oldest mss. weren't pointed.

Of course but that doesn't answer my question.

To what entity is Peter referring when he uses the term "original" in this
context? 

> But in this case the
> Aleppo version is more likely to be original because I think Leningrad
> is thought to be copied from Aleppo.

Does "original" merely mean earlier? Or is there in some sense an "original"
pointed text of the OT? Were there not several different pointed texts
(families?) and which one would we consider original and why?


greetings,
Clay Bartholomew