The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls & Related Literature) by Eugene C. Ulrich
Author:Eugene C. Ulrich [Ulrich, Eugene C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-03T07:04:00+00:00
For a second instance, at Lev 1:15 (rrpoc 10 vs. rin),17 again I do not disagree but rather stress that in such cases, just as it is necessary to check the meaning involved, so too is it equally necessary to consider whether an inadvertent ~;Z vs. ']Y variant in the Vorlage lies at the root of the Greek variant. The '7h vs. 737 confusion of laryngeals is frequent in the text transmitted in the MT,18 as it is in the ancient manuscripts from Qumran.19
For the third instance I do disagree. At Deut 31:5 the MT has the frequent promise, =12? -N-il Mr1]1 ("The Lord will give [your enemies] into your power"). There are three Greek variants: Evwrrtov upwv, upty, and Etg Tag XEtpag upwv, and Wevers selects Kai rrapEbwxev auTOUg xuptog Evwrrtov upwv as the OG translation. In his Text History of the Greek Deuteronomy, after discussing another locus where the decision on the originality of upty was difficult, Wevers says:
Much simpler to decide is the case of upty in 31:5 where for Deut Evwrnov upwv, [Vaticanus and other witnesses] read upiv. The verb modified is rrapESwKrv. The difficult rrapESwKEv . . . Evwmov upwv, which is a literal equivalent to the MT, was smoothed out by the change. The same kind of simplification took place in [the hexaplaric and other witnesses] where rig Tag XEtpag upwv was substituted for Evwrriov upwv.20
Thus, Evwrrtov upwv is viewed as original, and upty and Etg Tag XEtpag upwv the results of smoothing and simplification.
Here there is evidence for the alternate choice. Hellenophiles who usually wear a slight wince when reading some of the Greek found in the Septua gint do not wince noticeably more at 7TapE6wxev ... evwmov upwv than at numerous other parts of the translation. It is hard to escape the suspicion that Wevers presumes that the ='2? found in the MT was the reading that the OG translator saw in the Hebrew copy being translated. The same sentence, however, occurs elsewhere in Deuteronomy, and at one occurrence (Deut 7:23) where the MT has 1'2'7 and 4QpaleoDeutr also has occurrence another Deuteronomy scroll has has These maybe viewed as synonymous variants. When one seeks the OG translation, one finds only Elc Tac XEIpac aou (without relevant variant) in the manuscript tradition. I would maintain that probability rests on 7?'2 7?'2 as the Hebrew word in the text (or at least in the mind) of the OG translator at that point, and that the OG translator translated faithfully. We do not need the Qumran evidence, however, for the w had already taught us this lesson: in Deut 2:36 where the MT has (... 111]) already the OG has Elc raS XEipac gpwv (without relevant variant), and the Au has 1311i - quite probably the word encountered in the Hebrew text used by the OG translator.
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