RT Article
T1 TRACING THE PRE-MASSORETIC TEXT OF THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK
JF Sacra scripta
VO 17
IS 1
SP 7
OP 29
A1 Balogh, Csaba 1975-
LA English
PB CEEOL
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1823931480
AB The Book of Habakkuk is well-known for using a very sophisticated language in terms of semantics, poetics, or rhetorical structure, causing tremendous difficulties to later interpreters, both ancient and modern. For this reason, from a diachronic perspective, textual deviations from the canonical Massoretic tradition could be mere relics of the perplexity of confused translators or scribes. This study argues, however, that there are cases where the independent, divergent textual traditions coalesce into a reading that could be considered a historically more reliable variant than the reading survived within the Massoretic Text. This appears to be the case with בגוים in Hab 1:5 and היין in Hab 2:5, for which three independent traditions presuppose a common pre-Massoretic ancient alternative reading.
K1 textual witnesses
K1 Textual History
K1 Textual Criticism
K1 Habakkuk 2:5
K1 Habakkuk 1:5
K1 Book of Habakkuk