[B-Greek] Judith 13:19 textual variant

Brent Hudson brent at riveroflifembchurch.com
Tue Sep 9 19:12:14 EDT 2003


Here is a quote from Carey A. Moore in the Anchor Bible:

*to praise you*.  Zimmerman (p.71) has ended all debate on the LXX's ambiguous reading by showing that hte LXX's H ELPIS SOU, "your hope" (= Heb t(w)Hltk) [my note: H=chet] represents a misreading of the Hebrew thltk, "your praise,"  a reading attested by a number of ancient texts (see textual note d-d).  [page 233]

LXXa, OL, Syr, Eth, "our praise"; LXX "your hope"  [page 230)

Brent Hudson

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On 9/9/2003 at 9:22 AM Susan Jeffers wrote:

>Greetings --
>
>The NRSV for Judith 13:19 reads "Your praise will never depart from the 
>hearts of those who remember the power of God" with a text note on
>"praise" 
>that says "Other ancient authorities read hope."
>
>My copy of Rahlfs LXX shows ELPIS for the word in question, and has no
>note 
>in the apparatus.
>
>A student has asked "I wonder if these other authorities were also Greek 
>and what the Greek words used were."
>
>Any ideas?  I'm thinking maybe the "ancient authorities" were unavailable 
>when Rahlfs edition was produced???
>
>I tried looking up the Vulgate on Perseus, but what they have at Judith 
>13:19 doesn't match the context of the verse in the NRSV or Rahlfs at all 
>-- it's something about Holofernes and the Assyrian military.   In 
>BibleWorks the Vulgate for Judith 13:19 looks about twice as long as it 
>needs to be and also doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to the NRSV 
>verse; I read just about no Latin, anyway!
>
>Thanks in advance to any who can help.
>
>Susan Jeffers
>
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