FWD>RE > PSALMS IN SEPTUAGI

From: Karen Pitts (karen_pitts@maca.sarnoff.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 1996 - 08:32:04 EST


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Ken: I passed your question on to Scott and here is his reply. Karen

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Date: 1/23/96 9:24 PM
From: SCOTT_STARBUCK.parti@ecunet.or
Yes indeed, well said Karen.[I said that there were lots of places that the
Septuagint and the Masoretic texts didn't match and I'd given up on using
English texts for translating the Septuagint (or the NT for that
matterr--Karen]

Ken is looking at Ps 16:2 in Hebrew. It is most likely a corrupt text.
Presently the Hebrew can read either "my good most certainly (rests) upon
you" or "my good most certainly does not (rest) upon you." But the Urtext
probably said else.

It looks to me that the LXX is simply guessing at what the Hebrew text
meant.

If Ken wants to look further, the journal Vetus Testamentum has three
articles on this verse: VT 21 (1971) 52-53; VT 22 (1972) 359-61; VT 24
(1974) 190-192 by Leveen, Mannati, and Lindblom respectively.

Selah,

Scott R.A. Starbuck
Senior Pastor
Hopewell Presbyterian Church
80 West Broad St, Hopewell, NJ 08525
(609) 466-0758 FAX (609) 466-4604

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