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Peter Kirk,
After writing most of the above, I read Schmuel's contribution which seems to
confirm that the tradition of a correction here is unreliable. Schmuel
suggests that the corrections may have dated back to the time of Ezra and
Nehemiah. Well, I accept that the entire Hebrew Bible may have been subject
to extensive redaction in that time (except perhaps for those parts which
were only written at about that time) (snip)
Another reader privately asked me what were my views. I just want to be
clear that I was not suggesting earlier corrections. My faith view is very
simple, the Masoretic Text is a Received Text, and represents the scriptures,
the Dvar Elohim.. ...
... The Tiqqune Sopherim represents an important challenge to that view, making it a very significant question to anyone concerned with questions of inspiration and preservation of the scripture text.
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Overall, accessible scholarship is very spotty, and even confusing at
times, with the alternative paradigms not clearly laid out.. The Bullinger
view gets the public limelight, and then gets picked up by a lot of
non-scholars and plastered over the web :-)
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