As long as you ask, I found two differnt interpretations among "classical"Thank you. But I was more interested in treatments of the textual evidence from Nahal Hever and from LXX and other ancient versions, which seems to give strong evidence that MT is corrupt here.
Jewish commentators, all of course based on the MT k)ry "like a lion": most
understand "like a lion [they bite] my hand and feet". Rashi even adds a
reference to Isaiah 38:13. On the other hand, Abraham Ibn-Ezra understands
the k)ryto be a part of the previous phrase: "a company of evildoers
encircles me LIKE A LION; my hands and feet [are bound so I can neither
fight nor escape]".
My wife Sharon, by the way suggested that we look into "kartu" instead ofThis is another possible reconstruction. But if so this text must have been damaged very early, before LXX was translated as well as before Nahal Hever. The advantage of reconstructing an original KR'W is that it requires no emendation as the LXX Vorlage, for the translators could have understood this as from KRH "dig", and only a simple transposition makes it into the Nahal Hever text K'RW.
"karu", from KRT, "to cut off" - "they cut off my hands and feet". Any
reactions?
By the way, where does the NRSV "my hands and feet have shiveled" come from?The translators' imaginations, perhaps?
Yigal
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