Old Readings in 1 Esdras: The List of Returnees From Babylon (Ezra 2 // Nehemiah 7)
In a recent study of the Greek text of 1 Esdras we argued that it frequently reflected an old, often nonexpanded Semitic Vorlage despite the many corruptions and secondary expansions peculiar to the apocryphal text. Esdras B [hereafter: G], on the other hand, was also found to differ from the rece...
| Published in: | Harvard theological review |
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1969]
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Harvard theological review
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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Bible. Nehemia 7
B Bible. Ezra 2 |
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| Summary: | In a recent study of the Greek text of 1 Esdras we argued that it frequently reflected an old, often nonexpanded Semitic Vorlage despite the many corruptions and secondary expansions peculiar to the apocryphal text. Esdras B [hereafter: G], on the other hand, was also found to differ from the received Hebrew text, but its variants were small enough that its underlying text-type could be called Proto-Massoretic. This analysis conflicts with that of Bernhard Walde, Wilhelm Rudolph, and others, who would assign the same geographical and chronological horizons and nearly identical Vorlagen to 1 Esdras and G. We shall test our interpretation, therefore, by studying the differences in the Hebrew texts of Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 on the basis of the translation of Ezra 2 in 1 Esdras 5. Although the latter has many omissions and doublets in fact, it is in relatively poor shape not enough attention has been paid to its alternation between Ezra-type and Nehemiah-type texts. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000027644 |