Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Peter:

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Peter Bekins <pbekins AT fuse.net> wrote:

>
> A good place where we get a glimpse into scribal practice is 2 Sam 22
> = Psalm 18 where the poem occurs twice, though both poems seem to
> show the effects of the scribes so it is not so easy as to posit one
> being the earlier version and the other the later version.
>
> Pete Bekins
>
> There are many small differences between the two, as if the one were an
initial version reflecting a personal poem, while the latter a cleaned up
version used as a hymn, yet both written by the same hand.

Karl W. Randolph.