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Dear listmembers
The dean Raija Sollamo has kindly requested me to send the following 
message to the list. If you would like to discuss with her, please 
note that she is NOT a member of this list and that her e-mail 
address is added in the end of her message.

-------------- forwarded message --------------------------------

Review of David L. Washburn's review of my book "Repetitions of the 
Possessive Pronouns in the Septuagint". Septuagint and Cognate 
Studies Series 40. Scholars Press 1955.

I was very happy to see a review of my book so soon and, of course, I 
was very delighted with David L. Washburn's high evaluation of it. 
Unfortunately, he has misunderstood one of my main results. David L. 
Washburn writes in his review: "Sollamo shows ... that repetition of 
possessive pronouns in lists of two or more nouns is not a Hebraism 
at all; it is perfectly good Koine Greek. Authors such as Polybius, 
the Ptolemaic Papyri, Pseudo-Aristeas, Philo and Josephus repeated 
the pronouns more often than not." This is not correct. I have 
demonstrated that there is only one case involving the repetition of 
possessive pronouns by the Koine authors, namely Bell. Iud. 1,558. My 
examples are not taken at random from Koine authors. I have presented 
my text corpus on p. 7, and it has been scrutinized thoroughly. My 
examples are all that appear in this text corpus. As a result I state 
on page 17: "Firstly, the normal LXX practice of repeating the 
possessive pronoun with coordinate items proves to be a Hebraism." I 
understand that it is not very common to criticize a review. I would 
consider it very unfortunate, however, if wrong information 
concerning my book was spread among the scholars. 

Yours sincerely,

Raija Sollamo
University of Helsinki
e-mail: raija.sollamo@helsinki.fi

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