03-09-2015, 12:45 PM
Thanks Steve for your insight,
Note that both the example of 22:6 (two verbs demonstrating the shift to the n-preformative in the base text itself, as well as those earlier examples corrected by marginal notes to the n-preformative) are both in line with the reasoning I'm about to give. So they both fit in to my thesis.
Point well taken on the PDF files, they aren't mine and I don't mind taking them down if you think there would be a DMCA violation ... I really put them up on this site for reference from a copy that someone sent me way back, who I can't remember now (I've lost touch, and don't remember the name of the person.) I'm not in love with them, they aren't really central to the mission of this website.
The quirks of the Targum Proverbs also fit into my thesis, so I will be using those going forward.
In any case, please do check back - I will be slowly progressing on the documentation of this, because it's a complicated topic - and I want to be sure the basics are covered first.
The first established point is that Targum Proverbs contains the n-preformative both in the base text, and in marginal notes.
The second point is that Targum Proverbs contains the y-preformative in the base text, but never in the marginal notes.
The third point is that a later redactor attempted to correct each original y-preformative, either in the base text itself, or in the marginal notes. Otherwise, he would be leaving a garbled text with a strange mixture of the two. But he didn't catch everything. So we are left with a "hybrid" text, a mess.
The next post will address .... why would a Jewish scribe have done this to Targum Proverbs?
+Shamasha
Note that both the example of 22:6 (two verbs demonstrating the shift to the n-preformative in the base text itself, as well as those earlier examples corrected by marginal notes to the n-preformative) are both in line with the reasoning I'm about to give. So they both fit in to my thesis.
Point well taken on the PDF files, they aren't mine and I don't mind taking them down if you think there would be a DMCA violation ... I really put them up on this site for reference from a copy that someone sent me way back, who I can't remember now (I've lost touch, and don't remember the name of the person.) I'm not in love with them, they aren't really central to the mission of this website.
The quirks of the Targum Proverbs also fit into my thesis, so I will be using those going forward.
In any case, please do check back - I will be slowly progressing on the documentation of this, because it's a complicated topic - and I want to be sure the basics are covered first.
The first established point is that Targum Proverbs contains the n-preformative both in the base text, and in marginal notes.
The second point is that Targum Proverbs contains the y-preformative in the base text, but never in the marginal notes.
The third point is that a later redactor attempted to correct each original y-preformative, either in the base text itself, or in the marginal notes. Otherwise, he would be leaving a garbled text with a strange mixture of the two. But he didn't catch everything. So we are left with a "hybrid" text, a mess.
The next post will address .... why would a Jewish scribe have done this to Targum Proverbs?
+Shamasha