Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>> 
> >
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> > From: kgraham0938 AT comcast.net
> > >
> > > I put this up on text criticism site @ Yahoo, so I figured I put it
> > > here as well.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am assuming this is a variant, anyone got any ideas which reading
> > > it the correct one?
> > >
> > > Jer 52:12 WBAXODE$  HAXAMIY$IY  BE`F&OR
> > >
> > > In the fifth month and 10th day...
> > >
> > > 2 Kings 25:8 WBAXODE$ HAXAMIY$IY B:WIBY$IY
> > >
> > > In the fifth month and 7th day....
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kelton Graham
> > > KGRAHAM0938 AT comcast.net
> >
> 
> KARL:
> > Look at the context.
> >
> > Nebuzeardan may have arrived at the Nebuchadnezzar's encampment on the
> seventh, but the city wasn't taken until the nineth 2 Kings 25:3, delaying
> > Nebuzeardan's entrance to the city until the tenth after mopping up
> resistance to the invasion.
> > Thus both could be correct.
> 
> 
> That is harmonizing.

Yes it is, and shamelessly so.

> Since that whole section of 2 Kings 25 and Jer. 52 are
> parallel almost word for word, they must have been copied from a common
> source.

Even so, you can’t rule out one, namely 2 Kings, from not taking a snippet 
from another source and inserting it in what is otherwise almost word for 
word the same in Jeremiah. (They didn’t have copyright in those days     ;-)) 
 

> The Jer. text seems to be more "complete" (for example the
> information about Riblah in verse 10, missing from the parallel verse 7),
> which would seem to indicate that 2 Kings 25 is an abbreviation of Jer. 52,
> but in the verse in question, Kings' "Nebuzeardan... 'ebed melek Babel"
> ("servant of the king of Babylon") makes more sense than Jer.'s
> "Nebuzeardan... 'amad lipney melek Babel" ("stood before the king of
> Babylon"). The letter bet in 'ebed seems to have been miscopied by Jer. as a
> mem, and then the word "lipney" added in to make the context work. So it's
> difficult to judge which version of the date is the original.
> 
Riblah was mentioned in verse six of 2 Kings 25.

Even Jeremiah seems to indicate that Nebuzareadan may have been in the 
encampment before Jerusalem fell. 2 Kings mentions when he arrived at 
Jerusalem, Jeremiah mentions when he stood before the king to get his 
marching orders (or rather, his looting orders (army cooks often get a 
reputation at scrounging))..
> 
> KARL:
>   >It seems that in the context, the entrance into Jerusalem was the tenth.
> 
> Why?
> 
Look above at the context—the city fell on the nineth, the serious job of 
royal looting got underway on the tenth.
> >
> > Karl W. Randolph.
> > --

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