The Greek Chronicles: The Relation of the Septuagint of I and II Chronicles to the Massoretic Text, Part 2: Textual Criticism

196 Pages·1974·19.284 MB·English

by  Leslie C. Allen

THE GREEK CHRONICLES
PART 11
SUPPLEMENTS
TO
VETUS TESTAMENTUM
EDITED BY
THE BOARD OF THE QUARTERLY
G. W. ANDERSON - P. A. H. DE BOER - G. R. CASTELLINO
HENRY CAZELLES - J. A. EMERTON - W. L. HOLLADAY
R. E. MURPHY - E. NIELSEN - W. ZIMMERLI
VOLUME XXVII
LEIDEN
E. J. BRILL
1974
THE GREEK CHRONICLES
lHE RELATION OF THE SEPTUAGINT OF lAND 11 CHRONICLES
TO THE MASSORETIC TEXT
BY
LESLIE C. ALLEN
PART II
TEXTUAL CRITICISM
LEIDEN
E. J. BRILL
1974
ISBN 90 04 03933 3
Copyright 1974 by E. J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or
translated in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche
or any other means without written permission from the publisher
PRINTED IN BELGIUM
Dedicated to the memory 0/
W. P. M. Walters (Peter Katz)

CONTENTS
FOREWORD IX
ABBREvlATIONS XI
I. GREEK TEXTUAL CHANGES 1
1. Substitution 2
2. Addition 33
3. Omission 41
II. GREEK OR HEBREW TEXTUAL CHANGES 60
1. Assimilation 60
2. Parablepsis 63
3. Transposition 64
III. VARIANTS IN PARALIPOMENA DUE TO DIFFERENT
VOCALISATION 67
1. Pointing 67
2. Lack of vowelletters 75
IV. HEBREW TEXTUAL CHANGES 81
1. Abbreviation . 81
2. Assimilation 90
3. Division of words 105
4. Metathesis 106
5. Transposition 108
6. Confusion of consonants . 109
7. Haplography and dittography 125
8. Parablepsis 132
V. HEBREW TEXTUAL CHANGES (continued) ... 141
1. Glosses 141
2. Synonymous readings 146
3. Substitution . 151
':::l . 152
4.
5. The conjunction 154
6. Letters added and omitted 155
7. Omission 157
8. Addition 160
VIII CONTENTS
9. Script of the Vorlage 162
10. Condition of the Vorlage 166
INDEX OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES 169
FOREWORD
This book is the sequel to the work already published. The Greek
Chronicles, part I : The Translator's Craft (Supplements to Vetus
Testamentum, vol. XXV), the bibliography of which was intended to
cover this second volume. The two parts essentially hang together. In
the first were explained presuppositions which govern many of the
conclusions of the present volume, while in the second are supplied
explanations for which the patient reader of the first has had to wait.
The whole study, which has grown out of a London University
Ph. D thesis, represents a trek across a large literary and textual island
with the aid of such scholarly maps as are available. The first volume
reported a landing on the broken coastline of the extant Greek manus
cript tradition, and forays into the hinterland of translation technique
which lies behind the mountainous terrain of recensional activity.
Now for the second half of the journey. On the other side of our island
lies the level shore of the Masoretic Text, but many a path has to be
hacked through the jungles of Greek and Hebrew corruption before
contact with it may be made. On the way a comprehensive survey is
drawn up showing territory stretching from one end ofthe island to the
other for the critical use of future explorers.
I welcome this opportunity to record anew my gratitude to the
British Academy, the Managers of the Hort Memorial Fund, the
Trustees of the Bethune-Baker Fund and the Board of Governors of
the London Bible Oollege for financial aid towards the publication of
this research.
The illustrations in chapter v, section 9, have been reproduced from
"The Development of the Jewish Scripts" by F. M. Oross, Jr., in The
Bible and the Ancient Near East, by kind permission of the publishers,
Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd.
London Bible Oollege LESLIE O. ALLEN