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Excavations at Tel Azekah uncovered a Persian-period cistern burial of dozens of infants. Such findings shed light on life and death in the Achaemenid-era world that forms the backdrop to parts of the Hebrew Bible.
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I read a chapter about #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism in the 19th C, and now I better understand the background between the separation of textual criticism starting where literary criticism ends, which I see in the work e.g. of Tov, but I still think the division is artificial and misleading.
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I've always previously interpreted "Sefer Yashar" as "the upright/good book," but I'm wondering if instead we should derive Yashar from the verb "to sing," something like "the book which is sung" (perhaps revocalized as sefer yushar?).
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Random observation:
The name of the Persian king Artahshasta (Artaxerxes) is spelled
ארתחששתא in Ezra 4 and 6 (five times) but spelled
ארתחשסתא in Ezra 7-8 (five times). If sin and samekh were pronounced the same at that point, I would expect interchanging, not perfect division.
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I've seen many HB scholars (confessional & critical!) talk about "consensus," which they arrive at by simply disqualifying anyone who disagrees with them. As an outsider, I can't take such claims seriously.
How can we get a real (messy) understanding of the history of #HebrewBible scholarship?
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So if I complain that #HebrewBible scholars have a narrow view of their field's history, they are in good company!
But my goodness reading about nineteenth-century German biblical scholarship makes it sound like very little has changed in two hundred years or more. The debates are the same.
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Baden's J includes only Ex. 24:1-2, 9-11; 33:1-3, 12-23; 34:2-3, part of 4. But 24:9-11 has Moses going up the mountain with people (partway), and 33:1-34:3 is continuous dialogue between Moses and God, and 34:4 says Moses went up the mountain. But when did he go down? We're told told.
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A snippet from the page of a book: According to J, Jacob’s death comes almost immediately upon his arrival in Egypt (47:29–31), in line with Jacob’s statements that, having seen Joseph alive, he can finally die in peace (45:28; 46:30).
Statements like this (pictured) don't persuade me of the soundness of your #DocumentaryHypothesis theory. The immediately preceding verse says Jacob lived in Egypt for 17 years, and the author gives no argument why that verse belongs to a different source, merely assertion.
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114. In the E source, no reason is given for Sarah's lack of offspring; when God promises Abraham that he will have a son of his own, that is, Isaac (Gen 15:4), there is no mention of relieving Sarah of barrenness. P is more explicit: Isaac's birth is miraculous because of Abraham's and Sarah's advanced ages, not barrenness (Gen. 17:16-19). Again, there is no mention of Sarah having been unable to bear children before this.
Okay, here's a silly argument (p.69-70 of Baden's Composition of the Pentateuch):
Sarah "says explicitly that she is barren-'Yahweh has kept me from bearing' (16:1)-a concept unique to J" and justified in note 114 (pic).
What is inability to conceive?
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I would love to know how De Wette's thesis of 1805 (that #Deuteronomy was composed for the Josianic reforms in the 7th C BCE) went from being a possibility to being academic orthodoxy.
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I'm entertained by a scholar arguing for the #DocumentaryHypothesis objecting to the Supplementary Hypothesis because it implies that the redactors are incompetent. If the redactors were competent, there would be no evidence to support the Documentary Hypothesis...
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Actually it turns out that he vs. heth is the most common letter confusion in #Samaritan #Genesis. That surprises me, but I've found twenty such confusions among proper names. I suspect the lack of pronunciation difference helps.
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The final letter being he or heth is also a very easy confusion in Hebrew square script, but much harder in Samaritan or Paleo-Hebrew. I don't have an idea what that difference might indicate.
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A clip of the first word of Zofnath-pa'neah in Samaritan script in Cambridge Add. Ms. 1846. It shows extra yod letters after pe and and the end.
A clip of the second word of Zofnath-pa'neah in Samaritan script in Cambridge Add. Ms. 1846. It shows the final letter as he rather than heth.
I'm perhaps a little obsessed with foreign names in the #HebrewBible, and this morning I was looking at Joseph's Egyptian name in #Genesis 41:45: צָֽפְנַ֣ת פַּעְנֵחַ֒ (Zofnath-pa'neah). In #Samaritan Pentateuch the second word is often פענה and the first is צפנתי or צפינתי. (Images: Cambr. Add. 1846 f. 41b)
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Reading Joel Baden's Composition of the Pentateuch (2012), I am less than persuaded. I am not a reactionary who would reject any source criticism a priori. I appreciate his emphasis that a documentary hypothesis is only accepted if it most plausibly explains the text's shape.
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Is it a bad sign when Baden's very first example of a contradiction that requires a document source difference (the name of Moses's father-in-law) I think is more probably resolved by challenging a few Masoretic dots? I'm not opposed to a documentary hypothesis! But the text is ancient.
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I'm reading Joel Baden's The Composition of the Pentateuch, and in his initial discussion of #Genesis 37, he insists that 37:28 says the Midianites pulled Joseph from the pit:
וַיַּֽעַבְרוּ֩ אֲנָשִׁ֨ים מִדְיָנִ֜ים סֹֽחֲרִ֗ים וַֽיִּמְשְׁכוּ֙ וַיַּֽעֲל֤וּ אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִן־הַבּ֔וֹר
I had always read it as Joseph's brothers doing so.
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Biblical Israelite Fate/ Servants.
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Not by strength. Not by strategy.
But by supply.
Zechariah 4 is not about inspiration
it’s about limits.
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Close-up photograph of a Hebrew biblical manuscript showing lines of ancient script from the Book of the Twelve Prophets.
Most discussions of Haggai 2:7 begin with theology.
But the question may first be linguistic.
What does ḥemdat kol-haggôyim mean in its immediate context?
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Can anyone recommend discussions of the (nineteenth-century) Supplementary and/or Fragmentary hypotheses of Pentateuchal composition and why they were ultimately spurned by critical scholars?
Also any work at the intersection of source criticism & textual criticism?
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The Vulgate and the Masoretic Text agree, but the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and the Peshitta all disagree on the totals. Pesh nearly agrees, only rounding up Lamech's age at procreation to a round 200 (why?). But SamP and LXX are more interesting.
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A table reporting the years listed in Genesis 5:3, 5:6, 5:9, 5:12, 5:15, 5:18, 5:21, 5:25, 5:28, and 7:6. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Masoretic Text, the Peshitta, and the Vulgate, Adam was 130 years old when he fathered Seth, who was 105 when he fathered Enosh, who was 90 when he fathered Kainan, who was 70 when he fathered Malalelel, who was 65 when he fathered Jared. The Septuagint adds 100 to each of those ages. But Jared was 162 years old when he fathered Enoch, according to the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, the Peshitta, and the Vulgate, whereas the Samaritan Pentateuch takes 100 years off that age. Enoch was 65 when he fathered Methuselah according to every version except the Septuagint, which says 165. Methuselah's age at procreation is more complicated: 67 in the Samaritan Pentateuch, 167 in the Septuagint, and 187 in the Masoretic Text, the Peshitta, and the Vulgate. Lamech's age when he fathered Noah is even more varied: only 53 in the Samaritan Pentateuch, 188 in the Septuagint, 200 in the Peshitta, and 182 in the Masoretic Text and the Vulgate. All versions agree that Noah was 600 years old when the Flood happened. Thus the number of years from Creation to the Flood is 1,307 in the Samaritan Pentateuch, 1,656 in the Masoretic Text and the Vulgate, 2,242 in the Septuagint, and 1,674 in the Peshitta.
When people say "biblical chronology," as if it were one system, I like to ask which one. (They usually mean Ussher's, of course.) I made a chart comparing years from Creation to Flood in #Genesis in the Samaritan Pentateuch, Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Peshitta, & Vulgate.
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