[B-Greek] Gen 3:16b LXX: t'shuqah (desire) => APOSTROFH(turning)

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Wed Jan 6 13:22:48 EST 2010


If you are wondering whether APOSTROFH in Gen 3:16 might be based not  
on   a parent text like MT, or that TShQH might have been misread, the  
answer is Yes, of course.  But to make that viable we would need from  
among the Hebrew words rendered by APOSTROFH one word that graphically  
is similar to TShQH. Is there such a one?
Al
On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:41 AM, George F Somsel wrote:

> Sometimes things happen serendipitously to further discovery, but on  
> other occassions one can be led into a wrong direction.  I haven't  
> thoroughly investigated this, but let me throw it out for  
> consideration anyway.
>
> There are three instances of תְּשׁוּקָה in the Masoretic  
> text of the OT, and one instance of תְּשׁוּרָה . The latter  
> is found in 1 Sam 9.7 and being a hapax is not totally clear but  
> seems to indicate a present (nor is the former totally clear for  
> that matter). I only noticed this since the latter immediately  
> followed the form in Gen 3.6 in the lexicon.  In the history of  
> transmission it is possible that there has been some corruption in  
> the text since at various periods some letters resembled others  
> rather closely.  There are thus two questions:  Is this due to a  
> corruption?  If so, which passage exhibits the corruption?  Of  
> course, the usual question still remains regarding the precise  
> meaning of whichever form is determined to be correct.
>  george
> gfsomsel
>
>
> … search for truth, hear truth,
> learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth,
> defend the truth till death.
>
>
> - Jan Hus
> _________
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>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org>
> To: Ken Penner <kpenner at stfx.ca>; b-greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 8:41:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Gen 3:16b LXX: t'shuqah (desire) =>  
> APOSTROFH(turning)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Penner" <kpenner at stfx.ca>
> To: "b-greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: 6. januar 2010 18:13
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Gen 3:16b LXX: t'shuqah (desire) =>  
> APOSTROFH(turning)
> ...
> Iver, if you're interested in the meaning of T$WQTH, it occurs in  
> the Dead Sea
> Scrolls. Check at 1QS XI, 22; 1QM XV, 10; XVII, 4; 4Q256 XXII, 1;  
> 4Q256 1 10;
> 4Q446 3 1; 6Q18 2 4.
> ---------------------
>
> Sorry, I don't have access to these texts, and my Hebrew is not that  
> good.
>
> I do have what is called Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, and  
> they give
> the following information for the Hebrew word in question:
> "to concentrate one's full attention on someone else ► either with  
> the purpose
> of pleasing that person or of gaining control over him/her; ●  
> agent: human - to
> turn one's attention to; to be enraptured by; to concentrate one's  
> energy on GEN
> 3:16; 4:7; SNG 7:11 [3])"
>
> Since this is Hebrew it is not relevant for this list except to  
> explore why the
> LXX translator(s) used APOSTROFH.
>
> Iver
>
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