Can I read Ps 44,15; 57,10; 108,4; 149,7: בלאמים or בל־אמים on EtoBox?

Ps 44,15; 57,10; 108,4; 149,7: בלאמים or בל־אמים by Gianni Barbiero; Marco Pavan is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ps 44,15; 57,10; 108,4; 149,7: בלאמים or בל־אמים about?

In Ps 149,7, the Leningrad Codex (L), which is reproduced faithfully in BHS, offers the strange reading בל־אמים instead of the expected בלאמים, attested at Qumran and in the Aleppo Codex (A), which is followed by the ancient versions and by modern translations. This is not a case of a scribal error because the same reading occurs in Ps 44,15; 57,10; 108,4 L. According to the present contribution, a phonetic explanation of this phenomenon seems somewhat improbable. Probably what we have here is a semantic game, a kind of midrash on the consonants בלאמים, in which the authors of Codex L suggest the possibility of an alternative reading: »among the peoples« could be read also as »(among) the non-peoples«. This second reading receives support from Deut 32,21 בל־אמים. En Ps. 149,7, le Codex de Léningrad (L), qui est fidèlement repris par la BHS, offre l’étrange lecture: בל־אמים, au lieu de: בלאמים, selon Qumrân et le Codex d’Alep (A), suivis par les versions anciennes et les traductions modernes. Il ne s’agit pas d’une erreur de scribe, puisque la même lecture revient en Pss. 44,15; 57,10; 108,4 L. Une explication phonétique de ce phénomène paraît cependant improbable. Il s’agit plutôt

Who reads Ps 44,15; 57,10; 108,4; 149,7: בלאמים or בל־אמים?

Author

Gianni Barbiero; Marco Pavan

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2012

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)