In cases where the LXX Vorlage clearly differs irreconcilably from the Proto-MT which text is more accurate? And which text should be seen as ‘more correct’? ^^[1] <#_ftn1>
^^ <#_ftnref1>There are alternative possibilities, just as likely a priori, that this was a translation error by the LXX translators, or that the LXX text was corrupted during the several centuries between its first translation and the time of the oldest surviving manuscripts. Also for that matter that there was corruption between the proto-MT and the existing MT - or is the MT version attested in the DSS?
Also in Chapter 3.3, the difference between the LXX and MT quotations of Psalm 40:7[6] is that the phrase ‘*but you have given me an open ear*’, in MT Psalm 40:7[6] is radically and irreconcilably different from the corresponding LXX phrase ‘*a body you have prepared for me*’ in LXX Psalm 40:7[6]; leading to the conclusion that the LXX Vorlage differed from the Proto-MT for this text.
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.