hrconto
Dr. Dale M. Wheeler
dalemw at multnomah.edu
Fri Jan 24 10:52:52 EST 2003
At 12:35 AM 1/23/2003 -0500, Richard Ghilardi wrote:
>Dear B-Greekers,
>
>Dr. Wheeler wrote:
>
><< There are no occurrences of ARXW (the LXX just uses the base form, not
>the "deponent" form) in the Imperfect in the LXX, and there are 35
>occurrences of ERXOMAI in the Imperfect in the LXX. >>
>
>According to Hatch Redpath there does appear to be one occurance of
>imperfect of ARCOMAI in the LXX:
>
>Jos 17:12
>KAI OUK HDUNASQHSAN hOI hUIOI MANASSH EXOLEQREUSAI TAS POLEIS TAUTAS, KAI
>HRCETO hO CANANAIOS KATOIKEIN EN THi GHi TAUTHi
>
>While Alexandrinus has HRXATO Rahlfs reads the imperfect, HRCETO and
>Brenton translates this word as "began" though this can hardly be right.
>After all, the Canaanites were there long before the sons of Manasseh
>arrived on the scene!
Richard:
Yes, it should be ARXW in Josh 17:12; I went back to Bernard and my
discussion of this and found that we had decided that this one is ARXW, its
just that this one was on my list of individual things to hand correct for
the next release, namely this one will be listed as both with ERXOMAI as
the alternate (remember, I said there were still things to do)....here's
PART of our discussion, FYI:
This is an interesting case. Based on morphology alone, the root can either
be ARXW or ERXOMAI. As noted, if this is the former, it is the only time it
appears in the impf. However, I believe it is from ARXW. Consider the
following:
1. Some 11x ARXW translates Hebrew Y)L (a/c to HR), but the Hebrew is never
translated by ERXOMAI.
2. The Vulgate translates as: sed coepit Chananeus habitare in terra ista
(Douay-Rheims: but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land)
3. BM list a majority variant (to HRXETO): HRCATO which is the aorist of
ARXW. However, for the Ethiopic, they give the Latin translation: venerunt,
which means 'came', so we must not be the only ones who have had a problem
with this verse!
4. Tg Jonathan and the Peshitta have a different text at this verse, and so
have no direct equivalent.
5. Field has no notes or variants at this point (and nor does BHS, since
the Hebrew is not in question, and the Gk need not signal a different text.
Y)L_2 can be *stretched* to mean *continue to* (cf., BDB), but quite
naturally means "were determined" (NIV) or possibly "to begin" (cf., KBS
3), thus the LXX translation of it by ARXW 11x. As to the sequence of
events in the text...the Hebrew makes sense, and the LXX translator may
have just gone with the normal translation of Y)L as ARXW, whether it "made
sense" or not, from the LXX perspective, or the towns were originally taken
by the other tribes whose territory evidently overlapped Manasseh, but
Manasseh could not hold the towns and so they were recaptured by the
Canaanites.
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Dale M. Wheeler, Ph.D.
Research Prof., Biblical Languages Multnomah Bible College
8435 NE Glisan St. Portland, OR 97220
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