Re: Qumran Greek

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 06:33:29 EST

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    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.

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    Peter Kirk
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