title: ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν in Septuaginta (1 Regn. 19, 11–17) and Josephus (AJ 6, 11, 3–4)
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metadata.value: Gavrilov, Alexander
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metadata.value: 2021-02-11T14:32:50Z
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metadata.value: 2021-02-11T14:32:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Gavrilov A. ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν in Septuaginta (1 Regn. 19, 11–17) and Josephus (AJ 6, 11, 3–4). Philologia Classica 2020, 15 (2), 416–423.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2020.215
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23883
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metadata.value: A comparison of the episode with the trick of Michal in the Hebrew text as it stands in 1 Sam.
  19. 11–17 with the story in the First Book of the Kingdoms in the LXX shows one striking
  discrepancy: instead of a goatskin ) כּבְִיר הֳעִזִים ) in the Masoretic text the translation of the Alexandrians
  spoke of ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν (“goat’s liver”) lying on the bed along with teraphim under
  the same covering installed by the daughter of Saul to feign her quasi-ill bedridden husband
  David and so to outwit the king. As it seems, a certain oddity of the Greek variant could
  be (and sometimes was) explained through the ductus of Hebrew letters daleth and resh ( ד and
  ר) that might easily be taken for one another, so that כבר could falsely be read as כבד and understood
  as כבֵָד , i. e. ‘liver’, which was a Hebrew word in common use in opposition to כּבְִיר
  (presumably ‘a rug‘) that occurs only twice and only in this episode of the Bible. This change
  from goatskin to the goat-liver came most probably at the time of translation from Hebrew to
  Greek, if it had not appeared earlier and was not discussed already in Jewish milieu. Nevertheless,
  the authority of the LXX as well as Bildungsprestige of Hellenism was such that deviant
  readings as ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν gained authority from such persons as Philon, St. Paul or Josephus
  Flavius, who not only follows (Ant. Jud. VI 11. 3–4) the Septuagint version of the story, but
  tries to support the would-be realistic trustworthiness of the narrative in the Septuagint
  through the idea of a natural ability of liver to vacillate (its πήδημα) when touched, which
  could give an impression of a living person keeping to his bed due to illness (ἀσθμαίνειν). In
  this situation Vulgata reasonably preferred the veritas Hebraica, so that even such versions of
  the Bible which generally adhere to the LXX often prefer to follow the Hebrew original on this
  point.
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metadata.value: de
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hebrew Bible
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Septuaginta
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: daleth and resh
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: כבד instead of כבר
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interpretation of Josephus Flavius
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hexapla of Origen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: veritas Hebraica
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hieronymus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν in Septuaginta (1 Regn. 19, 11–17) and Josephus (AJ 6, 11, 3–4)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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