[B-Greek] Gen 3:16b LXX: t'shuqah (desire) => APOSTROFH (turning)
James Ernest
jdernest at alum.bu.edu
Mon Jan 4 13:29:44 EST 2010
Eric,
I don't have this particular volume, but I expect it would help you if you
could find a copy:
Wevers, Notes on the Greek Text of Genesis
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28254589&referer=brief_results
James Ernest
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Eric S. Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can anyone explain why the LXX translates the Hebrew t'shuqah (desire,
> urge) in Gen.
> 3:16b as "turning" (APOSTROFH)? ("Your desire shall be toward your
> husband....."). I
> cannot find that any of my Hebrew lexicons give "turning" as a meaning for
> t'shuqah, and
> none of my Greek lexicons give "desire" as a meaning for APOSTROFH; in
> fact, one of the
> LSJ definitions says it can mean the OPPOSITE of EPIQUMIA (desire, lust) -
> i.e., an
> "aversion" (turning away). One source suggests the LXX translator misread
> t'shuqah as
> t'shubah (return).
>
> Re: Genesis 3:16:
> * Philo uses APOSTROFH in Legum Allegoriae III (220) (though translated by
> C.D. Yonge
> as "desire" - maybe he went with the Hebrew reading/meaning?).
> * The Dead Sea Scrolls don't seen to have this verse in the extant scrolls,
> so we can't see
> what their Hebrew text said.
> * An online translation of Jubilees re: this passage also seems to read
> "return," but I don't
> know if that's based on the Greek or the Ethiopic text of Jubilees.
>
> A related question: Is there a reason Jerome's Vulgate reads:
>
> et sub viri potestate eris et ipse dominabitur tui = "and thou shalt be
> under thy husband's
> power, and he shall have dominion over thee."
>
> (I can't read Latin, so I have to trust this literal translation I found.)
>
> I.e., Jerome translated either t'shuqah or APOSTROFH as "sub viri
> potestate" which
> doesn't seem to be the meaning of either the Hebrew or the Greek.
>
> - - -
> Eric S. Weiss
>
>
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