Exodus 4: 24-26: A Textual Re-Examination
Complicating the exegesis of this difficult passage are certain textual problems with which this present submission is to be concerned. With the Masoretic Text of v. 24 wayehî badderek bammālôn wayyipgeehû YHWH wayebaqqe hamîtô the Versions are in substantial agreement. The Syriac text twice i...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1972]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1972, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 285-290 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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Bible. Exodus 4,24-26
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| Summary: | Complicating the exegesis of this difficult passage are certain textual problems with which this present submission is to be concerned. With the Masoretic Text of v. 24 wayehî badderek bammālôn wayyipgeehû YHWH wayebaqqe hamîtô the Versions are in substantial agreement. The Syriac text twice inserts Moses' into this verse, as the subject of the sentence and as the object of mût, but this is an obvious intrusion designed to clarify a difficult context, while the Targum (expectedly) and the Old Greek prefix an equivalent for Heb. mal'āk before YHWH. It is probable that the double mention of a setting (i.e. badderek/bammālôn) is the preservation of two ancient variants. J. Morgenstern, who with others, has rightly noted this, draws attention to the peculiarity of the article with mlwn (i.e. bammālon), since the contextual situation is generally vague and in a journey of many days there may have been several such stops, though on the other hand the article with derek occasions no difficulty since the journey as a whole is referred to. Morgenstern preferred to read bammālôn as a nominal form from the root mûl, translating now upon the journey, at the circumcision Yahweh attacked him (i.e., the child) and sought to kill him.' |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000002510 |