Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 11/09/2005 12:45, kgraham0938 AT comcast.net wrote:

> If you look in HALOT it says ....
>
> "by the transcription IAOUAI/E in Clement of Alexandria Stromata 5:6." p395
> --
> Kelton Graham 
> KGRAHAM0938 AT comcast.net
>  

Dave hasn't made his point entirely clear, but from what he wrote to me 
off list it seems that the form in the only surviving (and not very 
reliable) manuscript of Clement's Stromata is actually IAOU. The form 
IAOUE is perhaps only a 19th century conjectural emendation of IAOU - 
although apparently one accepted by HALOT. Smith's (1863 - see Dave's 
URL) refers to the form IAOUE "in a catena to the Pentateuch in a MS. at 
Turin", but I know that Dave has been unable to find any more 
information about this MS - perhaps a Latin translation? So this looks 
like another case where dubious 19th century scholarship has been 
accepted without question by later scholars.

I'm not sure where IAOUAI comes from.

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Peter Kirk
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