Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Hi,

2009/11/26 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

> James:
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, James Christian <
> jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2009/11/23 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
> >
> > James:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:21 PM, James Christian
> >> <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >> > Not too long ago we had a discussion about the different traditions of
> >> the
> >> > ages of our ancestors as listed in Genesis.… and we
> >> > saw that the LXX tradition and *not* the MT tradition better supported
> >> your
> >> > position…
> >>
> >>
> >> Even in this example, it is understandable as copyist errors.
> >>
> >>
> > I really don't see how this could be a copyist error. Can you suggest the
> > copy logic that could have led to such an error?
> >
> > James Christian
> >
>
> Ever tried copying a long list of numbers? It’s a lot harder than text to
> get it correct, therefore more likely to have errors if done quickly.
>
>
But usually a copy error is one of several well known types. For example, we
are copying a number and memorise a section of that number. Then we write
the section we memorised. Then we look back to what we are copying from and
start copying from the wrong place because a similar number sequence to what
we just wrote exists in more than one place in the source text. I really
can't see how we could reconstruct this sequence of events given the two
competing traditions we have.

James Christian



> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> >
> >
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