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I'm NOT an expert in the #HebrewBible /Old Testament. (My PhD is in something else.) But I love textual criticism. That makes me an amateur. Abbr.: MT= Masoretic Text SamP= Samaritan Pentateuch OG= Old Greek Pesh(itta) Vulg(ate) Tg= Targums DSS= Qumran
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Reviving my analysis of names of God in #Genesis#HebrewBible#TextualCriticismbsky.app/profile/ot-t...

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Reading chapters 1-4 of #Genesis in #Hebrew, one is struck by the abrupt shift from calling God Elohim (1:1-2:3) to YHWH Elohim (2:4-3:32, except the serpent) to just YHWH (chap. 4). Such shifts persuaded scholars there were different documents. 1/? #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism #BiblicalStudies

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I'm defining unanimity as all witnesses possess the translation equivalents, except Vulg replacing a second "and God did" with "who did" is merely stylistic, so does not break unanimity. In order to visualize the drop and then upward shift, it is necessary to have units of comparison. 2/?

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I'm NOT an expert in the #HebrewBible /Old Testament. (My PhD is in something else.) But I love textual criticism. That makes me an amateur. Abbr.: MT= Masoretic Text SamP= Samaritan Pentateuch OG= Old Greek Pesh(itta) Vulg(ate) Tg= Targums DSS= Qumran
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