[B-Greek] LXX Source Texts
Arie Dirkzwager
dirkzwager at pandora.be
Sat Apr 10 13:46:42 EDT 2004
Philipp,
I think you should read E. Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible,
Minneapolis-Assen, 2nd ed. 2001. Tov is well acquainted with the biblical
texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is able to detect different tendencies
in the transmission of the OT. There were tendencies towards the MT,
tendencies comparable to the Samaritan Pentateuch, tendencies like the LXX
etc.
I studied the work some time ago and I remember vaguely that Tov does not
like to write about text *types* because he thinks the boundaries between
the "types" are fluent. I remember very well, that Tov does not write about
the text of the OT used in the NT (besides two or three times where he
cannot be silent about it) and the value of the NT for the establishment of
the text of the Hebrew Bible - and I regret that.
So the answer to your question is not easy. Two things are sure: you cannot
say that the NT follows the LXX everywhere and you cannot say that the Jews
had a standard text of the OT. And - the authors of the NT could have
translated the OT passages they wanted to quote themselves.
Arie
Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
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