Re: [Tyndale STEP - Translations] OT variant sources

I agree we only want K/Q when UBS mentions them.
I take your point about Karaite. I guess Hebrew Mss is a good as anything
till we suddenly think of the obvious solution.

David IB

At 22:39 23/10/2009, galen goldsmith wrote:

Hi, David,

What I have been doing is noting Ketib/Qere where it is a part of UBS, but not necessarily every one--I do make it clear that it is this type of problem. So those won't be hard to convert to whatever we finally decide to use.

When UBS or BHS say there is a significant variation between Hebrew Mss, I do just put that in the parenthesis (Hebrew Mss). I thought this would give some idea of another source of information besides MT, but not Qumran. The problem with getting more specific is we don't actually know which mss without a lot of work--and if in some odd instance it weren't Karaite, we would be incorrect.

Let me know if you want every K/Q noted. That is yet another subject.

Thanks,

Galen



--- On Fri, 10/23/09, Tyndale STEP Project <TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Galen (mainly)

While creating the macro (which is just about done)

I was thinking about the problem of how we record Hebrew variants.

We record everthing else in terms of language

(Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Samaritan)

We use Qumran for Hebrew MSS in the DSScrolls,

but what about the Ketiv / Kere ? and what about the other MSS?

How do you feel about "Written Hebrew" and "Spoken Hebrew",

(scholars should work out this is Ketiv/Kere because they'll always

be in a pair)

and (more controversially) what about "Karaite" for non-Massoretic

Hebrew which isn't at Qumran?

I don't like it (because people don't know the term Karaite) but it

does describe the MSS fairly well.

I think virtually all (if not all) the non-Massoretic MSS come from

Karaite collections, mainly from Geniza collections.

The other option is "non-Massoretic Hebrew", but this makes one think

of Qumran as well.

What do you think?

David IB

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Posted By Tyndale STEP Project to Tyndale STEP - Translations on 10/23/2009 02:23:00 PM