LXX: Gn.5

c stirling bartholomew cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Thu Apr 25 21:28:28 EDT 2002




> on 4/25/02 12:33 PM, Rick Duggin wrote:
> 
>> noticed something peculiar about the ages recorded in
>> the LXX of Gn.5.     ..
> 
on 4/25/02 2:17 PM, c stirling bartholomew wrote:
> 
> J.W. Wevers  (Notes on the Greek Text of Genesis) discusses this but does not
> really explain it. The difference is always 100 years. There are also
> significant word order variations. Where a 100 years are added in one place
> they are subtracted somewhere else to make the numbers add up correctly.

Rick,

As I suspected, my comments gleaned from Wevers "Notes" greatly oversimplify
the picture. The numbers do not always vary by an even 100 and the totals do
not add up the same.

The chronologies in Gen 5 according to the MT, SamPent, and LXX are quite
different and the LXX textual variants further complicate the issue.
According to G. Wenham (Genesis WBC, vol. 1), numerous  attempts to "solve"
this problem have never been very successful. Wenham has five pages of notes
on this including several charts and a bibliography. V.P. Hamilton (Genesis,
NICOT vol.1) also devotes some space to this question, including charts.

For those fascinated with numerology, the bibliographies in Wenham and
Hamilton will give you sources for further investigation.

greetings,

Clay  

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