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From: David Moore 
Subject: Re: Isaiah 7:11
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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Andrew Gross wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Jim Deardorff wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, MR. DAVE FOUTS wrote:
> > 
> > > I trust you'll forgive a TC discussion from the Old Testament.  
> 
> I hope OT textual critcism is not off-limits here?  ;)
> 
> 
> > > Recently, on another listserv (either B-Hebrew or ANE), another 
> > > individual was requesting input on Isa. 7:11, wherein the great 
> > > Isaiah scroll reads m'm or m'b rather than the MT's m > > I know of no other manuscript with this reading, and think that 
> > > though the Isaiah scroll's reading of from the mother of or from the 
> > > father of (YHWH) is far more difficult, the context nowhere in the 
> > > passage nor in Scripture refers to a mother or father of YHWH.
> > > Any input?
> > 
> > Were you referring to Is 7:14 here, Dave, rather than 7:11?  (Since I 
> > don't read Hebrew I need to ask, also since my RSV Bible gives no hint 
> > that any "mother of YHVH" or "father of JHVH" enters in anywhere.)
> 
> The reading "mother of" is the variant in the Qumran scroll, and that is 
> why you don't see it in the RSV.

	Oddly, BHS, which often cites Qumran documents in its apparatus, 
includes no mention of this variant.

David L. Moore                             Southeastern Spanish District
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