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  1. 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]שחט

    with a long gap.

    But if that's original, how can one explain the shorter reading?

    8/? #DeadSeaScrolls #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  2. 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]שחט

    So 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.

    7/? #TextualCriticism #HebrewBible