Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  It is interesting how different readers draw different conclusions
 from the same work by E. Tov. He stated that the Mishnah uses
 exclusively the MT.
 
 He also gave a number of examples how the Samaritan simplified ,
 "harmonized", difficult grammatical forms and rendered them in the
 standard way. That indicates that the Sasmaritan is later than the
 version which eventually became the MT. It is reasonable to assume
 that the difficult forms had come down by tradition, and were simplified
 by later editors.
 
 I can look up E. Tov's examples.
 
  Uri Hurwitz                                                          Great 
Neck, NY
 
 
 
"(And on a side note, the assertion of fixity by 200 BC also ignores the 
fact that the Talmud contains many Torah variants indicating that they 
did not have our MT.)
One implication of Tov's work is that the proto-MT was probably brought 
to Jerusalem from Babylonia around the time of Hillel, and that the 
Samaritan version is closer to what had been the dominant text-type in 
the previous period."


Gabe Eisenstein




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Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT USA