Hi Rolf
You wrote:
The witness of the Targums and the LXX cannot
be used to find the meaning of the Hebrew text.
Why do you say that? I would rather think the opposite since Hebrew was still a spoken language at the time that the Targums and LXX were made (although not by everybody), so I would assume that the translators had a better understanding and knowledge of the language than what we can have today. They might not have known the modern grammatical terms, but still understood the meaning of the language. As far as the Masoretes and Karaites are concerned, I would agree that their understanding might be more influenced by other spoken languages of their time, since Hebrew was no longer their native language, but only heard in synagogue.
Regards
Chavoux Luyt
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