01-23-2008, 06:19 PM
gbausc Wrote:Shlama Khathi Christine,
But Jehoshaphat was King of Judah, not of Israel. Check out all other references in Chronicles and Kings.
The Peshitta is correct here, as is the LXX. The Hebrew is incorrect in that place.Even 2 Chron. 20:35 says so.
Blessings,
Dave
You missunderstood me, I agree that the PT & LXX have it right. What I suggested is that the reason the Masoretic text has these sort of errors is because different scribes copied different scrolls. It's easy to explain the scribal errors in the Masoretic text if we assume that different scribes copied different scrolls, because each scroll wasn't authored by the same author, and handwriting differs from individual to individual. And it seems that the proof-readers of the Masoretic Tanakh didn't pick up these contradictory scribal errors while editing the Masoretic Tanakh. So I concluded that the Masoretic Tanakh was poorly edited compared to the LXX & PT.