Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred putnam <fred.putnam AT gmail.com>]

"Proto-MT" (sometimes called "pre-MT") refers to any *Hebrew* text from
before the time of the Masoretes. The Judaean Desert/Dead Sea Scrolls are
one example, but even such epigraphic finds as the two amulets of rolled
silver foil with their quotations from Numbers are also proto-MT "texts".

LXX, not being in Hebrew, is not a proto-MT text, although it is a textual
witness to a proto-MT Hebrew text, or, perhaps more accurately, to pre-MT
textual tradition(s), as is also the Vulgate, which was translated from a
proto-MT a couple of centuries before the pointing of the text.

Peace.

Fred Putnam

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> What is this proto-MT? A theoretical reconstruction?
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 7:28 AM, George Athas wrote:
>
>  the proto-MT
>>
>
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