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

Sorry, I should have said "any *biblical* Hebrew text".

Epigraphic evidence that is not a biblical text (e.g., the Siloam
Inscription) is a testimony to pre-Masoretic Hebrew, but not to the biblical
text itself (to be redundant).

-Fred Putnam

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, fred putnam <fred.putnam AT gmail.com> wrote:

> "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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