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#Jeremiah 38:6a seems to me ungrammatical in the MT:
וַיִּקְח֣וּ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֨כוּ אֹת֜וֹ אֶל־הַבּ֣וֹר׀ מַלְכִּיָּ֣הוּ בֶן־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ
"They took Jeremiah and they threw him into the pit - Malkiyahu the king's son."

It cannot be "the pit of Malkiyahu" because הבור has a definite article.

Indeed, the Masoretes seemed to want to help readers exclude reading it as "the pit of" by adding a vertical line after "the pit."

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I would love to know how De Wette's thesis of 1805 (that #Deuteronomy was composed for the Josianic reforms in the 7th C BCE) went from being a possibility to being academic orthodoxy.
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#Deuteronomy 12 famously refers to a place YHWH will choose for his cult, which scholars often take as referring to Josiah's reforms (2 Kings 23). But in Deuteronomy the verbs are future tense (יבחר).

Or are they? SamP thinks otherwise.

All 21 times where the text refers to the place which God will choose (Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18, 21, 26; 14:23-25; 15:20; 16:2, 6-7, 11, 15-16; 17:8, 10; 18:6; 26:2; 31:11), MT imperfect יבחר corresponds to SamP perfect בחר.

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Okay, a rabbit trail may have revealed a funny point about the NRSV's textual history.

#Genesis 10:14 = #1Chronicles 1:12 lists the peoples of Pathros, Kasluh, & Kaphtor, mentioning in passing that the Philistines came from Kasluhites.

Oddly, #Jeremiah 47:4 and #Amos 9:7 identify the Philistines as coming from Kaphtor, not Kasluh.

What's going on here? Dunno. Perhaps a marginal addition was incorporated into the main text in the wrong spot in Genesis.

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Vulg in English: And Tobiyah & Sanballat had hired him. For he received a price, that I might be terrified

#Syriac Pesh has a longer reading, with the redundancy:
ܛܘܒܝܐ ܘܣܡܒܠܝܛ ܘܚܒܪ̈ܘܗܝ܂ ܐܓܪܘ ܘܫܕܪܘܗܝ ܥܠܝ ܠܡܩܛܠܢܝ ܡܛܠ ܕܐܓܝܪܐ ܗܘ܂ ܡܛܠ ܕܐܕܚܠ
Tobiya, Sanballat, *and his companions* hired *and sent* him *against me to kill me*, so that he was hired so that I would fear
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Also important, no source for this section refers to God as anything other than "God" (#Hebrew אלהים, #Greek Θεός, #Syriac ܐܠܗܐ, #Latin Deus).

All of this changes once we move into Genesis 2:4ff. Of the 34 references to God in Genesis 2:4-4:26, only 17 achieve unanimity (barring Vulg omissions), only 50%, and sometimes which name is used for God is different. In 2:4-22, where MT has "LORD God," OG only has "God" (except 2:4, 15-18).

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In Num 21:21, the Samaritan Pentateuch (SamP) has one of its long interpolations, taken from Deut 2:24-25. It is entirely normal for SamP to put material from #Deuteronomy in #Numbers, a harmonizing tendency not found in any of the other ancient witnesses. The same source explains why SamP reads "words of peace" (from Dt 2:26) late in the verse.

BUT the LXX *also* reads "words of peace" in Num 21:21. Could that phrase be original, accidentally omitted from MT?

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I've moved over to the instance, so here's a new #introduction post:

I've been the Fellow for Public Engagement at #TyndaleHouse, #Cambridge, since September, having been a speaker and writer on media and the #Bible for more than 25 years.

I'm nearing the end of a #PhD
in #PracticalTheology (Cambridge Theological Federation) exploring ways of using the prophetic literature in media engagement, focusing particularly on Amos. This combines #BiblicalStudies, #Philosophy, #CulturalTheology, and #MediaStudies within a #PracticalTheology framework.

I'm also an associate with Living Leadership and a lead tutor for Formation School, Southampton.

#BiblicalStudies #OldTestament #HebrewBible #Theology #MediaEngagement #BibleAndMedia #GospelAndCulture #introduction