Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:21 PM, James Christian
<jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>wrote:

> I would like to believe that all the differences can be ascribed to copyist
> errors and attempts to correct errors but I am strongly suspicious of
> doctrinal forces which influenced those 'copyist errors' and 'corrections'.
> Not too long ago we had a discussion about the different traditions of the
> ages of our ancestors as listed in Genesis. This discussion had bearing on
> your understanding of the organisation of the documents in Genesis and we
> saw that the LXX tradition and *not* the MT tradition better supported your
> position because the maths of the MT tradition made a part of your position
> impossible.


Even in this example, it is understandable as copyist errors.

What do the DSS say in this question? Apparently this section was missing in
the DSS?


> It was also brought to the fore that the figures in the MT tradition may
> have been tampered with for heretical reasons which involved stealing the
> throne of David and the position of High Priest. This strongly throws into
> conjecture that all these differences can be attributed to innocent 'copyist
> errors' and 'corrections'.
>

I don’t know any of these examples. Where are they?

>
> James Christian
>
>
> Karl W. Randolph.