From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 06:33:29 EST
On 09/12/2003 15:27, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> ...
>
>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.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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