Hebrew OT Text

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Hi Dave:
I agree with your post. What I find very interesting about the Torah is the fact that there appears to be a "watermark" at the beginning of B'rayshit (Genesis) and Sh'mot (Exodus).
As you have stated, the Masoretic text agrees closely with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Actually, the Torah (Masoretic text) is the "autograph".

There is a fifty (50) letter ELS of the word TORAH from the first "tav", in both B'rayshi(t) and Sh'mo(t). The probability of this happening by random is virtually impossible, but it's there for anyone to see, by counting every 50 letters of the Hebrew (Masoretic) text.

The Peshitta TaNaK is a good comparative translation because it allows us to see how Aramaic words were used as cognates between the Hebrew TaNaK and the Peshitta TaNaK. Moreover, the extrapolation of cognate equivalents in the New Testament Peshitta (Khabouris) text is assured. I agree with you concerning the equivalent between the Hebrew YHVH and the Aramaic Marya.

For anyone that is interested in Bible Codes, the first 50 ELS of YESHUA in the Torah is found in Genesis 26:19, beginning with the YUD in "ma(y)im khayim", "living water".

YUD 26:19 "ma(y)im khayim"

SHIN 26:20 "shem-habyr e(s)ek"

VAV 26:22 "(v)ay'tek misham"

AYIN 26:22 "ki-(a)tah

I searched for the 50 ELS of Yeshua for two reasons.

1) the number fifty (50) is symbolic of "jubilee" as well as "sh'vuot/pentecost".

2) Since TORAH appears as a 50 ELS it would seem appropriate that YESHUA would follow that pattern as a sign of the "watermark" of authenticity.

Kind Regards,
Stephen Silver

It has been pretty well established that the Massoretic text is much older than A.D. 1000 .
The Great Isaiah Scroll (circa. 100 B.C.) agrees very closely with the Massoretic text throughout the entire book of Isaiah, disregarding Aramaic spelling in the scroll and orthographical style.

It is certainly not a LXX type text, though there are other scrolls of other books (Samuel in particular) that show a LXX type Hebrew text.

The OT Peshitta has been carefully compared with the Hebrew text of the Massoretes and it agrees very closely. See Hugoye Journal's article on the Peshitta OT, I don't remember which issue.

Certainly, The Peshitta and the DSS and LXX can be used to correct the Massoretic text (e.g.Isaiah 7:14 in some places.

The Peshitta, like the LXX is just a translation; therefore it has errors aplenty, like any translation.
It is highly doubtful that it is closer to the original
than the Hebrew text we have today.It is a very valuable and very well done translation, being almost as early as the LXX ,and a Semitic one at that, thus reducing the room for error in translation.
The Massorah lists some 137 places where "Yahweh was changed to Adonai". The Peshitta retains "Marya" in those places in the OT.
So its text , like the DSS, is very early.

Shlama,


Dave

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