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I was delighted to come across the suggestion that Sheshbazzar in #Ezra and 5 is Jeconiah's son Shenazzar in 1 #Chronicles 3:18. Collins' Introduction mentions it in passing, but says they are two different names. But are they? Or is one just a scribal error?
The difference is two letters: ששבצר vs. שנאצר.
LXX 1 Esdras has a mixed form Σαναβάσσαρος (=שנבצר) in 2:11, 14; 6:17, 19.
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Random observation:
The name of the Persian king Artahshasta (Artaxerxes) is spelled
ארתחששתא
in Ezra 4 and 6 (five times) but spelled
ארתחשסתא
in Ezra 7-8 (five times). If sin and samekh were pronounced the same at that point, I would expect interchanging, not perfect division.
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What interests me is the question how, if the DSS/OG reading is original, the shorter MT reading could have appeared. The proposed reconstruction of 4QSam-a's text reads:
והנער
[עמם ויביאוהו לפני יהוה וישחט אביהו את ]הזבח [כ]אשר
[יעשה מימים ימימה ליהוה ............... וי]שחטwith a long gap.
But if that's original, how can one explain the shorter reading?
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Most such explanations can go either way, which is why #TextualCriticism is difficult and often inconclusive.
In this case, one of the #DeadSeaScrolls supports OG over MT (which doesn't solve the issue, since variations occur among DSS).
4QSam-a:
בי]ת יהוה שילה והנער
]הזבח [כ]אשר
וי]שחטSo a full line comes between the second-to-last word of 1 Sam. 1:24 and the start of v.25, w/ two words echoing OG.