I am using BHS. So I am not sure what Kittel did.
> though, that
>one is clearly marked in the apparatus as a tiqun sopherim, but I don't
>find a reference to it in Job 2:9. Is there another way these were
>indicated besides the abreviation tiq soph?
Again, I am not sure what Kittel did.
>The reason I offered the
>example I did was the Brown Driver Briggs entry: "bless, with the
>antithetical meaning curse (Thes) from the greeting in departing, saying
>adieu to, taking leave of; but rather a blessing overdone and so really a
>curse as in vulgar English as well as in the Shemitic cognates."
>
I think maybe Brown and company are stretching for an answer that is
unnecessary. Such comparative-linguistic analyses are not needed when one
sees what the MT scribes were in the habit of doing.
>David
Jim
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Jim West
Adjunct Professor of Bible,
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net