Talk:Masoretic Text

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"This means that the decision of the Masoretic scholars is, more or less, final. Where the Masoretic version seems obscure or doubtful, we have no other Hebrew text to guide us --- just more copies of the Masoretic recension. The only clues remaining as to earlier texts and traditions come from the fragments of scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls and from early translations of the Hebrew canon into other languages, such as the Greek Septuagint."

I may be missing the intent of this paragraph, but it seems that the fact that the dead sea scrolls contained versions of all of the old testament books except esther contradicts part of it.

In some situation multiple versions of the books have been found. As per the article that I link to below versions of Jeramiah have been found that are more consistent with the septuagint version than the masoretic version of the old testament.

http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1990/4/4jerem90.html

--Davefoc 08:23, 20 August 2006 (CDT)

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I guess what it actually needs is an article on the Dea Sea Scrolls. Your link looks like a good place to start, cheers.

--- Dr A.