Hebrews 2:9 Revisited

[Lars Lindgren]

Shlama Akhay,

1.Why do you assume the Western follows the Greek?
It's not so much an assumption as much as it's an observation of the evidence available and presented. All Greek New Testament manuscripts show some variation of "otos kariti Theo".

Apparently there are three known Greek NT manuscripts that do have a reading similar to the Eastern Peshitta.

From the page: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ovc.edu/terry/tc/lay24heb.htm">http://www.ovc.edu/terry/tc/lay24heb.htm</a><!-- m -->

Hebrews 2:9:
TEXT: "so that by the grace of God he might taste death"
EVIDENCE: p46 S A B C D K P Psi 33 81 104 614 630 1241 1881 2495 Byz Lect lat most vg most syr(p) syr(h,pal) cop
TRANSLATIONS: KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV
RANK: B

NOTES: "so that without God he might taste death"
EVIDENCE: 0121b 424c 1739* one vg some syr(p)
TRANSLATIONS: NEBn

COMMENTS: There are only three letters' difference between the two readings. Perhaps the reading "without God" arose when copyists misread the text reading.

Some info about said manuscripts:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial_0121b">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial_0121b</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_424">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_424</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_1739">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_1739</a><!-- m -->

It would be nice to be able to read the exact Greek wording of "so that without God he might taste death" and compare it with the more general reading, in order to see how similar they actually are.

//Lars

Credits:
Bruce Terry
Prof. of Bible and Humanities
School of Biblical Studies
Ohio Valley University