1) 2 Samuel 8:12,13: MT 'RM, LXX IDUMAIA. (In this case there is some Hebrew MSS support for 'DM, plus Syriac support). The LXX reading is clearly based on a Vorlage 'DM, and confusion between dalet and resh is a well attested process.
So the LXX Vorlage has 'DM, and the Proto-MT has 'RM. But which one is
correct? In this case there is some Hebrew MSS support for the LXX
Vorlage, 'DM, plus Syriac support. So which reading is more likely to be
correct?
2) Genesis 1:9: MT MQWM, pointed MAQOWM, LXX SUNAGWGHN. The easiest reconstruction here (as in BHS) is that the LXX Vorlage was MQWH, MIQWEH, which also makes sense in the context and is used in the next verse. MQWM and MQWH are plausible corruptions of one another, and we cannot be sure which was original.
Precisely my point. We have two ancient witnesses, the LXX Vorlage and
the Proto-MT; and where they disagree, we cannot be sure which was
original.
1. How can one determine a corruption of the LXX Vorlage when it (the
LXX Vorlage) is not extant?
2. Determining a corruption in translation is not clear to me when the
LXX Vorlage is not extant.
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