Sorry, I should have said "any *biblical* Hebrew text". Epigraphic evidence that is not a biblical text (e.g., the Siloam Inscription) is a testimony to pre-Masoretic Hebrew, but not to the biblical text itself (to be redundant).
-Fred Putnam On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, fred putnam <[email protected]> wrote: > "Proto-MT" (sometimes called "pre-MT") refers to any *Hebrew* text from > before the time of the Masoretes. The Judaean Desert/Dead Sea Scrolls are > one example, but even such epigraphic finds as the two amulets of rolled > silver foil with their quotations from Numbers are also proto-MT "texts". > > LXX, not being in Hebrew, is not a proto-MT text, although it is a textual > witness to a proto-MT Hebrew text, or, perhaps more accurately, to pre-MT > textual tradition(s), as is also the Vulgate, which was translated from a > proto-MT a couple of centuries before the pointing of the text. > > Peace. > > Fred Putnam > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is this proto-MT? A theoretical reconstruction? >> >> Isaac Fried, Boston University >> >> On Nov 28, 2010, at 7:28 AM, George Athas wrote: >> >> the proto-MT >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> b-hebrew mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew >> > > > > -- > --)--------------- > "We are not yet what we already are" (J. Pieper). > > Frederic Clarke Putnam, Ph.D. | Professor of Biblical Studies > Philadelphia Biblical University | 200 Manor Avenue | Langhorne, PA > 19047-2990 > http://pbu.edu | 1215-702-4502 | Fax: 1-215-702-4533 | www.fredputnam.org > > Before printing this email, think green! > -- --)--------------- "We are not yet what we already are" (J. Pieper). Frederic Clarke Putnam, Ph.D. | Professor of Biblical Studies Philadelphia Biblical University | 200 Manor Avenue | Langhorne, PA 19047-2990 http://pbu.edu | 1215-702-4502 | Fax: 1-215-702-4533 | www.fredputnam.org Before printing this email, think green! _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
