God as an Enemy: Lamentations 2:5 in the Peshitta

Some early manuscripts of the Peshitta that seem to preserve the oldest version of P read in Lam 2:5 Adonai has become an enemy, he has devoured Israel, vis-a-vis MT ‮כְּאוֹיֵב‬‎ like an enemy. The omission of the comparative seems to go back to the proto-Masoretic Vorlage of P, which can be reconst...

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Main Author: Hähnel-Bremer, Lea (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: Textus
Year: 2025, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-26
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible. Klagelieder 2 / Syriac language / God / Idea of God / Enemy
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Textual Criticism
B Lamentations
B Peshitta
B translation technique
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Summary:Some early manuscripts of the Peshitta that seem to preserve the oldest version of P read in Lam 2:5 Adonai has become an enemy, he has devoured Israel, vis-a-vis MT ‮כְּאוֹיֵב‬‎ like an enemy. The omission of the comparative seems to go back to the proto-Masoretic Vorlage of P, which can be reconstructed as *‮היה אדני אויב‬‎ and is likely to have also formed the Vorlage of Tg.
ISSN:2589-255X
Contains:Enthalten in: Textus
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/2589255X-bja10051