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  • From: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Proto-MT
  • Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:40:05 -0600

do not codex kaufmann and masoretic text enjoy the approximate same
manufacture date?

http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/study04.htm

regards,

fred burlingame

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>wrote:

> I was asked off-list why the biblical quotes in the Talmud (and, I will
> add,
> pre-10th century Jewish liturgy and other literature as well) are not used
> by scholars as evidence of the "proto-MT". With the permission of the
> person
> who asked, I'll post may answer on-list.
>
>
>
> Basically, there are two reasons that I can think of. One is the general
> disdain that Christian scholars traditionally have had for all things
> Jewish. This is an old and ingrained tradition in Christianity, that
> precluded many Christian scholars in the past from even being familiar with
> the Talmud, not to mention using it as evidence for anything. By the way,
> the animosity was mutual, and it is very rare to find a "traditional"
> Jewish
> source quoting a Christian scholar. Hopefully lists such as this one are
> doing their bit to clear the air.
>
>
>
> The second reason is a more "serious" one. We don't have any significant
> very old mms. of the Talmud either. This means that there will always be
> the
> suspicion, that in cases where the Talmud was quoting what seems to be the
> MT (or "proto-MT"), it did originally have a different text, which was
> "updated" to fit the GRU, as time went on. How would anyone know?
>
>
>
> Dr. Yigal Levin
>
> The Israel and Golda Koschitzky
>
> Department of Jewish History
>
> Bar-Ilan University
>
> Ramat Gan. 52900
>
> ISRAEL
>
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>
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