To: "INTERNET:peter_kirk AT sil.org" <peter_kirk AT sil.org>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re[2]: targums (clarification)
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 02:33:40 -0400
peter asked:
>Are you, or is anyone else, seriously propounding the view that the
>Hebrew text of Job was a translation and that the Aramaic found at
>Qumran is (something like) the original?
shalom peter,
i think the following is a consensus.
qumran aramaic Job is a translation.
hebrew Job was original, but it is in a hebrew dialect that is sui generis.
there are those who suspect that Job is a translation from something else,
but no one has proposed that Qumran aramaic Job is original.