On 09/12/2003 15:27, Philippe Verdy wrote:
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I had the same feeling when I replied to Elaine that this may be an
annotation added by a Coptic scribe within the Hebrew text. But it was hard
to guess if this was the case. Coptic religious have made extensive studies
in Egypt related to ancient texts in Hebrew, and it's quite natural that
they may have mixed their own annotations in Coptic in the margin of the
original Hebrew texts. ...
But this is very unlikely as it was found in a Qumran text, which is
known to have lain undisturbed from c.68, which is before Coptic was a
regularly written language, to 1948.
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