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Michael Pietsch

Von Königen und Königtümern. Eine Untersuchung zur Textgeschichte der Königsbücher

In a series of studies Adrian Schenker recently proposed a new relationship between the Old Greek and the Masoretic Text in the books of Kings. According to Schenker the Old Greek preserved the original text while the Masoretic Text resulted from a thorough redactional reworking of the older textual form carried out under the authority of the Jerusalem priesthood during the second half of the 2^nd century BCE. This article discusses Schenker's ideas with regard to the account of the reform of king Josiah in II Reg 22–23, concluding that Schenker's thesis of a general priority of the textual form of the Old Greek in the books of Kings cannot be sustained. On the contrary, in numerous passages the text of the Old Greek seems to presuppose and reinterpret the Masoretic Text. Therefore future studies in the books of Kings will still have to evaluate critically the different readings in the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts to decide which variant is to be preferred in each single passage.

Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0044-2526
Volume: 119, 03/2007
Pages: 39 - 58

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