Re: Jer 8:10

Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Sat, 23 May 1998 15:02:54 -0400

At 12:52 PM 5/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>The author of the Meyer commentary on 1 Tim cites Jer. 8:10 LXX as a
>rough parallel to the use of FILARGURIA in 1 Tim 6:10 (NT hapax). But my
>copy of the LXX (sadly the Brenton translation) lacks anything like this
>at Jer. 8:10, where the second half of v. 10 and all of v. 11 as in the
>MT is missing. So I wondering if anyone who has a LXX with a critical
>apparatus could tell me if there is an LXX manuscript which contains the
>equivalent of the missing text and, if so, what it reads.
>

Rahlfs does not have anything in v. 10 past "klhronomois"- and does not list
another verse till 13; leaving out 10b-12. Further, it does not even
contain a note.
The apparatus to BHS has a note which shows that 10b-12 is absent from the
LXX- but it also shows that that segment is contained in Theodotian.

It seems, then, that the possibility exists that the word you are looking
for is in Theodotian's version- but as I do not have that, I cannot check.

If you would like the email of Adrian Schenker, the chief editor of the
forthcoming BHQ, I will be glad to send it to you privately. He is a very
learned scholar and quite amiable. He will also be able to converse with
you in English, French, or German.

>Thanks,
>
>Jeffrey Gibson
>--

Jim

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Quartz Hill School of Theology

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