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Posted by kew gardens teleport on Mon Feb 18 13:59:19 2013, in response to Re: Atheism, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Feb 18 12:01:53 2013. You're citing translations rather than the original text.We don't have the original text. We don't have any manuscripts at all from several centuries after the original text was written. And the point of citing the Versions (the LXX etc) is precisely because they sometimes have older and better witnesses than the MT. Our earliest MT witness is about six centuries newer than our earliest LXX witness, and about five centuries newer than our earliest Peshitta and Vulgate witnesses. The Massoretes did us absolutely no favors. This is why the Dead Sea Scrolls are such a game changer: it meant that our oldest Hebrew manuscripts suddenly got a millennium older. The Hebrew text is unchanged. That's obviously false, most obviously because there are variants between different Hebrew Manuscripts too: as well as the MT, we have the DSS and the Samaritan Pentateuch. For instance, the Samaritan has Methuselah as 67 years old (vs LXX 167 and MT 187) at Genesis 5:25, if you really want to go and read Hebrew in horrible characters. This also makes it look like the LXX preserves the original Hebrew reading in this case (with the MT and Samaritan preserving different errors), which is interesting given the chronological problems this causes with Methuselah's death and the Flood. Could the errors be deliberate, one wonders... There is also a distinct plausibility issue in the present case: did you notice Kainan in the genealogy comparison I linked you to? Whether the number involved was originally 30 or 130, it's an obvious case of parablepsis occasioned by homoeoteleuton (or the scribe's eye skipping to the next thing that ended the same, to put it more plainly). That is far more likely than the alternative explanation of a translator inventing an extra ancestor. |
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