Subject: Re: text critical remarks in BHS apparatus
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:57:56 -0400
At 03:43 PM 4/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I thought I understood, or at least knew how to figure out, the
>text-critical apparatus in BHS, but I have come across the following
>two issues that have let me know how little I know.
>
>1) What is the difference in what the editor is communicating by the
>following two comments?
>"a-a > LXX*, add" and "a-a > LXX*, prb dl"
What is the reference?
>
>2) I have found a couple of comments that read, "an a (gamma) add?"
>where (gamma) stands for the letter gamma, but I have not been able to
>confirm what the letter gamma refers to here.
Again, what is the reference? Gamma generally refers to the "three
interpreters" (Aquila, Theodotion, and Origen- and their texts)
>
>Thanks!
>Rodney
Best,
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Petros Baptist Church- Pastor
Quartz Hill School of Theology- Adjunct Prof. of Bible