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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jim West wrote:
> I would be most pleased if someone could answer the following questions
> concerning Gen 49:10- (shiloh)
>
> 1- is it possible that the "qere" is a masoretic effort to ameliorate the
> christian interpretation of this verse as a messianic text?
It's possible that the qere reading draws attention away from the
interpretation of "Shiloh" as an appellation, but the kethib could also be
read "which is his," or something similar. Certainly Christianity read
this passage as messianic, but so did the targums. Targum Onkelos reads
"until the time when the messiah comes to whom the kingdom belongs," and
Targum Neofiti reads similarly (but "king messiah"). Both the Peshitta
and LXX interpret rather than transcribe "Shiloh," with the LXX rendering
being somewhat more mysterious: "the things which are reserved," or some
such. The earliest interpretation of this passage, which may also be
messianic, may be Ezek 21:31 (21:27 Eng): "Ruin, ruin, ruin I will bring
such as never was, until he comes whose right it is [(D-B) )$R-LW HM$P+,
cf. (D KY-YB) $YLH in Gen], and I will give it (to him)." Thus, the
messianic interpretation seems to predate Christianity, and even the qere
reading can be interpreted to lean in that direction.
Jimmy Adair
Manager of Information Technology Services, Scholars Press
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