Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

54
ECCLESIASTES
show that the Hebrew of BS. is not original but dependent on
the Greek.
The proof of the priority of Qoheleth is of three kinds : (i) Passages
extant in the Hebrew text of Ecclesiasticus, which show dependence
upon the Hebrew of Qoheleth ; (2) Passages not yet recovered
in the Hebrew, but the Greek of which is clearly a translation of
Hebrew practically identical with that of Qoheleth, and (3) Pas-
sages in which Ben Sira has paraphrased the thought of Qoheleth,
though clearly dependent upon it.
1. Passages of the first class are as follows:
BS. 3Q 16 and 33 ,
1
noita D ?^ ^N i&yn Qoh. 3":
BS. 5 3 : DIOTU trpan "> o Qoh. 3 15 :
BS. 40": anr> px hx y~\xn SD Qoh. 3 20 - 21 :
:onn SN onan T^NI
(
Qoh. is 13 :
:
DIN
DXI a its
mxn
1
D;VI PN npi nn ? ii>'
nx PCK'J San -\ai PJID
vnixn nxi NII DTiS^-i
If we were to accept Schechter's conjectural emendation of ija
pnn np (BS. 4 20 ) to IDJ^ pn np >j^, we should then have a parallel
to Qoh. 3 1 : pnnpW?.
Noldeke and McN. regard the conjecture as
probable, but Peters and Levi retain pan.
An unbiased examination of these coincidences makes upon me the
same impression that it does upon Noldeke and McN., viz.: that Ben
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