[B-Greek] Psalm 39:7 LXX

Ben and Jo Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Sun Dec 21 12:40:36 EST 2003


On Sat 20 Dec 2003 (20:59:52), albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca wrote:
> That Kirkpatrick and Westcott in 1903 would cite "the Septuagint" as
> reading SWMA in Ps 39:7 is precisely what one would expect since their 
> exemplar of the "the Septuagint" clearly read SWMA. Since Rahlfs'
> critical edition of 1931 it has been clear, however, that SWMA belongs
> to the RECEPTION HISTORY of the Old Greek text, but NOT to its
> CONSTITUTIVE CHARACTER.
> Are you suggesting, Ben, that we return to "the Septuagint" of 1903
> and thus collapse reception history and constitutive character?

 I would love to afford to obtain a Rahlf's, but I have to make do with
 Brenton. It would be nicer still to return to "the Septuagint" of 290 BC  ;-)

 Meanwhile we still have the mystery of how an ear became a body; I suggested
 it might be a Synechdoche. It seems that the writer to the Hebrews had SWMA
 in his exemplar in the late 1st century AD.

 Ben
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