Whether a codex or a scroll, the context was Jesus' participation in the weekly reading of the Scripture within a synagogue service. The Jewish custom is to...
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Fr. John Whiteford
frjohnwhiteford
Feb 14, 2007 4:19 am
Bart wrote: "I would not be surprised if the terms "open" and "closed" were carry overs from the scroll days. I am perplexed as to how these terms really...
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RRHowell41@...
Feb 14, 2007 1:27 pm
... From: barthome1@... Subject: Re: [lxx] another question ... Really? It seems to me that when I open a door, or a chest, or a book/codex style, the...
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Bart (comcast)
bartbeast
Feb 14, 2007 2:35 pm
As I understand the development of the Targums, they came into being during the Babylonian captivity when the Jews started to acculturate to the local society....
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Bart (comcast)
bartbeast
Feb 14, 2007 2:40 pm
Hello Fr. John, I think your daughter might prove the point that the terms "open" and "close" could well be of ancient usage and would refer to a scroll as...
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philippe guillaume
Philippe.guillaume@...
Feb 14, 2007 3:42 pm
On evidence of the use of Greek in Galilee: Knauf, Ernst Axel: Writing and speaking in Galilee. In: Alkier, Stefan and Zangenberg, Jürgen (Hg.), Zeichen aus...
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Aaron n Sara
saraandaaron
Feb 14, 2007 8:42 pm
"Whether a codex or a scroll, the context was Jesus' participation in the weekly reading of the Scripture within a synagogue service. The Jewish custom is to...
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J Thomas Phillips
emmaus_60
Feb 14, 2007 8:59 pm
Servant of God, Father John; Greetings! With respect to your response concerning idoms and your daughter usages of "opebn and "close" Here in Maine,...
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Robert Kraft
kraftra
Feb 15, 2007 5:23 am
Well put! As a footnote, there is also early (pre 2nd century CE ??) evidence for a three year cycle (triennial, Palestinian) of scripture reading in Jewish...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Feb 15, 2007 6:31 am
One good article on the subject of Jewish lectionary reading I happen to have around is: Morris, Leon. "The Gospels and the Jewish Lectionaries." in R.T....
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Sigrid Peterson
petersig
Feb 15, 2007 7:35 am
With all the discussion we have had about canon, and the non-fixing of any canon in the first and second centuries CE, the elements of Torah/Pentateuch seem to...
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Charlotte Faber
charlotte.faber@...
Feb 15, 2007 4:42 pm
On the other hand, see Maurice Casey (although I do not agree with him on all points): Aramaic sources of Mark's Gospel, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Feb 15, 2007 9:43 pm
Sigrid, that's very interesting about 6 Maccabees' mention of reading. What terminology was used for your translated "lectionary"? I don't recall the Syriac...
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philippe guillaume
Philippe.guillaume@...
Feb 16, 2007 6:45 am
Kevin, Isn't the Syriac for lectionary derived from root QR' to call / read as the Quran is? See Luxenburg? -- Dr Philippe Guillaume Stelserstrasse 478A ...
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Schmuel
praxean
Feb 19, 2007 10:09 am
Hi Folks, Judges 13:5 (KJB) For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son ... Alexandrinus - hEXEIS (future tense) IDOU SU EN GASTRI hEXEIS KAI TEXHi hUION ...
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Schmuel
praxean
Feb 19, 2007 11:37 am
Hi Folks, I found the following page that does give a partial answer to my question below, even specifically focusing on Judges. ...
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Sean
rhoadess
Mar 20, 2007 12:42 am
Dear lxx group I am going to be sending out the lxx this year over e-mail to some friends, so as to get through it in a year, I would like to know if there...
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Bill Ross
billrossfamily
Mar 20, 2007 1:01 pm
The order of the LXX is the same as the Catholic/Protestant Bibles, which is different from the Massoretic, which is the order used in Jewish Bibles. Bill Ross...
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Sean Rhoades
rhoadess
Mar 20, 2007 1:19 pm
Hi Bill I am looking for something more like the following list but with the other books that we find in the Greek Septuagint added, I suppose I could guess...
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Wyrick, Jed
jd_wyrick
Mar 20, 2007 4:32 pm
Dear Sean, From a scholar¹s perspective, this list is interesting but bizarre. For instance, no one could agree about the ³era² of Job in antiquity‹it...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Mar 20, 2007 5:58 pm
... Dear Sean, ... One correction would be that the book of Susanna depicts Daniel as a young man, while Bel and the Dragon do follow the book of Daniel....
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Sean Rhoades
rhoadess
Mar 21, 2007 5:53 am
Thank you very much Jed I didn't realize this had to be worked out, I assumed it had been done before, and was a matter of knowing where to find. I will...
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Sigrid Peterson
petersig
Mar 21, 2007 7:26 am
I'm responding to your thought that it had been done before. One scholar who has published a chronology of the Hebrew Bible in English was Samuel Sandmel, 45...
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Bill Ross
billrossfamily
Mar 21, 2007 1:07 pm
While I've been dating since I was a teenager, it is ultimately a quixotic pursuit to date the scrolls with any kind of consensus. Also, a chronology of what...
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Matthew Johnson
mej1960
Mar 22, 2007 3:25 am
Some of you will recognize that I am only a day behind the calendar in reading Prov 15:7 today;) But in any case, as I was reading it, I noticed something I...
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schmuel
praxean
Mar 29, 2007 9:02 am
Hi Folks, If possible I am looking for the exact manuscript breakdown of the verses below in the Greek OT. Especially that would include Vaticanus and ...
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David Hindley
dchindley
Mar 29, 2007 11:57 am
Steven, You ask: <<If possible I am looking for the exact manuscript breakdown of the verses below in the Greek OT. Especially that would include Vaticanus...
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Ivan KArel
ivankarel@...
Mar 30, 2007 6:04 am
Dear All. Any knows what's LXX version that Paul,Matthew and another NT writer quoted?? Thanks Ivan Karel ... Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at...
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Bill Ross
billrossfamily
Mar 31, 2007 1:15 pm
No one knows. Bill Ross http://www.bibleshockers.com http://www.broadjam.com/billross ... From: Ivan KArel To: lxx@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007...
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Pat and Jim Ellis
patandjimellis
Apr 1, 2007 1:06 am
And there's always the possibility they were paraphrasing from memory and not quoting from a certain version. Bill Ross <BillRoss@...> wrote: No...
