Psalm 9/Variants
Variants
Kinds of variants
"The poem is a three-quarter instead of a complete alphabetical acrostic principle, as 16 of the 22 letters are used. The non-appearance of certain consonantal signs as strophe openers need not be the result of textual corruption. The text of Ps.9/10 is nearly immaculate... Moreover, Nic H. Ridderbos in BZAW 117 p.141, note 4, points out dass unvollständige akrostichische Gedichte keine Ausnahme darstellen. He provides some instances."[1]
The following is from Barthélemy's Critique textuelle de l’Ancien Testament volume on the Psalms.[2] For a key to the various symbols and abbreviations, click here.
Ps 9,2(1) אוֹדֶה {B} MT, Gal, Hebr, S, T // facil-styl: G clav אוֹדְךָ
Ps 9,7-8(6-7) הֵמָּה: וַיהיָה {B} MT, εβρ // facil-synt: α', σ', ε', ς', Hebr, T / abr-elus: S / err-voc: G
Ps 9,14(13) מִשֹּׂנְאַי {A}
Ps 9,17(16) נוֹקֵשׁ {C} MT // exeg: G, α', Hebr, S, T
Two additional variants are provided by 11QPsc.[3]
9,5 ושׁבתה
9,5 שׁפטתה
- ↑ J.P. Fokkelman, Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis, Vol. 2 (Assen: Van Gorcum, 2000), 72.
- ↑ Dominique Barthélemy, Critique textuelle de l’Ancien Testament: Tome 4. Psaumes, https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-150304
- ↑ Eugene Ulrich, The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Variants, Vol. 3: Psalms-Chronicles (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 628.