To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, "Giuseppe Regalzi" <regalzi AT infinito.it>
Subject: RE: deuteronomy, liz, response
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:44:22 -0000
I would surmise that after a certain date copyists took extreme care not to
modernise the orthography, perhaps because they developed a very high view
of Scripture, that no letter may be changed. This is in fact more than a
surmise, for we know that later on such a view was held, and we also know
that the texts were not all modernised to orthographic uniformity. I won't
try to speculate on dates, though the name Ezra springs to mind.
Peter Kirk
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From: Giuseppe Regalzi [mailto:regalzi AT infinito.it]
Sent: 09 March 2001 18:08
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: deuteronomy, liz, response
Peter Kirk wrote:
> Well, don't forget the point made recently that the surface form
> of such details indicated not the original composition but the
> latest redaction. So Vince's observation need mean no more than
> that Deuteronomy was copied by a scribe "ca.600" who modernised
> the orthography, whereas Kings was not copied at that time or
> copied by a more conservative scribe.
But subsequently both were copied many times: how is it that they
didn't undergo any more orthographic modernizations?
Giuseppe
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