Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on by John C. Reeves, John Kampen

Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on by John C. Reeves, John Kampen

By John C. Reeves, John Kampen

The topics of this quantity surround the lifelong pursuits of 1 of the main eminent and realized Jewish students of our time: Qumran, Hellenism, Rabbinics and chronography. The participants, best students in those fields, have produced what's a benchmark of recent scholarship of Judaism within the Graeco-Roman interval.

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Ii 7, 11 break' hipalisallim StOr 1 33 r. ); and the full range of genres in which the terms are employed. The author recognizes the crucial nature of these questions but realizes that future studies will be needed in order to carry the matter further. Let us summarize the examples gleaned from among Akkadian texts and from the Massorah and then let us consider the possibility of comparison. The feature noted in Akkadian texts deals with the occurrence of a break in the tablet that had been transmitted through time.

8. 38 The RSV translates 'Let us go out to the field', noting the ancient versions that have this reading and notifying the reader that the Hebrew lacks these words. However, note the interpretation of my colleague, Herbert C. Brichto:39 'There's absolutely nothing missing. ' Brichto translates: 'Cain thought: "It's all my brother's fault"'. 2. Gen. 22. Ginsburg,40 to Gen. 22 observes a difference between 'Westerners' and 'Easterners', the former showing only ethnakta, the latter only sofpasuq.

8-10. 7-12. As in Genesis, the story of Noah's drunkenness and the response of his sons to his condition precedes the table of nations (Gen. 20-27). The curse which Canaan there receives appears to be of no consequence in Genesis 10, but in Jubilees, though it is surprisingly phrased no more vociferously than in Genesis, it manifestly sets the stage for what is to follow. The only differences of wording worth noting come in Jub. 10-ll//Gen. 25-26. In Jub. 10 the writer adds words to the end of Gen.

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