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OT Textual Criticism Amateur @[email protected] · 2026-04-27 · 19:03 UTC

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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OT Textual Criticism Amateur @[email protected] · 2024-05-17 · 04:39 UTC

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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OT Textual Criticism Amateur @[email protected] · 2024-05-17 · 04:38 UTC

Reading chapters 1-4 of #Genesis in #Hebrew, one is struck by the abrupt shift from calling God Elohim (1:1-2:3) to YHWH Elohim (2:4-3:32, except the serpent) to just YHWH (chap. 4). Such shifts persuaded scholars there were different documents.

But how stable are these differences across the different witnesses?

It first must be acknowledged that the #Latin #Vulgate often omits "God", to avoid too much repetition.
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