The Origin of the 'Original Hebrew' of Ecclesiasticus (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Origin of the 'Original Hebrew' of EcclesiasticusThe appearance of many of the pages of the ms. Is not unlike that which would be presented by the rough copies of retranslations of Ecclesiasticus such as many scholars must at different times have made. Could they be unearthed, we should be sure to find a pro visional retranslation occupying the centre of the page, while on the margin there would be alterations of various sorts, alternative render ings, corrections, suggestions, notes of various readings. Just such an appearance is presented by fol. 2 recto of the Oxford ms. Most of the lines have some variant written against them. The import of all of these notes is not clear, but in many cases it is obvious. The verse xli. 13 contains the word 'good, ' i. E. 'goodness, ' twice, in the text this word is represented by the feminine mm, but in the margin the masculine am is offered as an improvement. In the first half of the same verse for the Greek number of days the Hebrew text has days of number the margin offers the more literal equivalent 'number of days.' In the next verse the text contains 'hidden treasure' in the ordinary Hebrew idiom, the margin gives the Aramaic word for 'treasure, ' with the Hebrew participle 'hidden accommodated to it in gender. In the next verse the Greek word for 'hiding' or storing is represented by one synonym in the text, by another in the margin. Many of the remaining variants appear to be suggested improvements in orthography, accuracy, and seemliness of expression. On a translator's rough copy such a quantity of marginal notes would naturally be found, and bear evidence of the care, the deliberation, and the hesitation with which he worked. But on the margin of a late copy of a work professing to be original, and handed down as books were handed down before the invention of printing, such a quantity of variants would be astounding.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.