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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Kenneth Litwak wrote:

> are there any features of 
> the ancient versions, independent of their proximity in readings to the 
> MT or OG, which indicate they are more or less reliable witnesses to the 
> "original" text?

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One feature worth considering is whether an ancient version gives evidence
of a "slavish" translation, e.g., retaining a Hebrew word-order which is
not native to the target language, or literal renderings of idioms which
don't make sense in the target language. A version with these features is
likely to be more "faithful" to the "original" text (whatever "original
text" might be!).

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