To: "'Karl Randolph'" <kwrandolph AT email.com>, "'Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:
Subject: [b-hebrew] DSS Orthography
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:14:22 -0500
> Which brings up the question: with the intermediate freer
> spellings evidenced during the Second Temple period, why was
> the stricter spelling preserved in the MT? Does the MT
> preserve what was the scholarly edition, as opposed to the
> quick and dirty popular editions that happened to be
> preserved at Qumran?
Kutscher makes an impressive case that the MT represents an older textual
tradition than does 1QIsa^a. He postulates that "1 Isa^a (or its
predecessors) is descended from a text identical (or at least very similar)
to that of the Masoretic Text, but by no means can we assume the
converse--i.e., that the Masoretic Text is descended from a text of the type
of 1 Isa^a" (The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isaiah Scroll,
3).
Re: [b-hebrew] Yahwism (was: their altar)
, (continued)