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Romans 9:3 - An Explanantion of a variant reading? - Burning one - 11-05-2008
Shlama,
i've been tromping around in MARI, and the following made me wonder:
Romans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
(KJV)
the term "wish/desire" is across the board in the different texts that i've checked thus far, so the above version is merely a typical example of the Greek reading, and yet the Peshitta reads instead the very different term [font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]0lc[/font], meaning "pray."
being no variants in the texts that i can find, i turned to the lexicon, and ran across this:
one of the Aramaic terms for "desire" happens to be [font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]0bc[/font].
The letters beyt and lomadh are structurally similar, and thus a scribal misreading of the lomadh as a beyt could easily account for the difference in the reading of the Greek text.
any thoughts?
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy