tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post774659341457557489..comments2024-03-25T14:27:40.121-05:00Comments on Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength: Origen and early textual scholarship of the BibleWeekend Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-51015192081951306852009-03-26T21:58:00.000-05:002009-03-26T21:58:00.000-05:00Hi MartinThanks for stopping by. I saw an unsource...Hi Martin<BR/><BR/>Thanks for stopping by. <BR/><BR/>I saw an unsourced comment that Origen had actually taken decades to complete his work. If that pan's out: That's dedication. But I didn't have a chance to source the fact yet, so I didn't include it ... <BR/><BR/>Take care & God bless<BR/>Anne / WFWeekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-64158308564658280972009-03-25T19:25:00.000-05:002009-03-25T19:25:00.000-05:00Now that was a scholar.Of course, he wasn't distra...Now that was a scholar.<BR/><BR/>Of course, he wasn't distracted by phones, e-mail, TV, etc.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-17974053830543983392009-03-22T18:28:00.000-05:002009-03-22T18:28:00.000-05:00Hey thereGood to see you again. I've been pray...Hey there<BR/><BR/>Good to see you again. I've been praying for you re: some of the things you've mentioned on your blog, & hope all is going well. (I know, it would have made more sense for me to click over there and leave a comment at your blog. Sorry about that, my own lack of focus there.) <BR/><BR/>I'm not quite sure how close Origen's Hebrew was to the actual Masoretic text. That would be a very interesting question. It's one of the questions scholars try to answer with the LXX and the Samaritan Pentateuch: how much has the Masoretic text changed over the years? It doesn't seem like the Hexapla has survived except in quotations, excerpts, sections, that kind of thing, though there's a new edition in the works. Back in the hand-copying days it would have been massively expensive to copy, requiring scribes who knew both Greek and Hebrew rather than your run-of-the-mill scribe ... <BR/><BR/>I'm sure at some point they did a little standardizing of the hand-copied NT texts too, though there are so many old citations -- and modifications and doubtful text tended to be marked -- that we have a lot of evidence of old readings before anything of that kind would have had any traction. <BR/><BR/>Take care & God bless<BR/>Anne / WFWeekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-42015261386772636232009-03-22T17:38:00.000-05:002009-03-22T17:38:00.000-05:00I've read Origen's criticism of the Masoretic text...I've read Origen's criticism of the Masoretic text, and always meant to do more research on it. The controversy surrounding him is unfortunate, since many might pull the Tu Quoque logical fallacy to diminish his teachings (the tu quoque says that because a person was wrong about A they must be wrong about B as well). <BR/><BR/>I think it's interesting when you discuss how the early church was more interested in studying variant readings than destroying them, especially if you compare it to other sacred scripture. A Muslim caliphate later released an "official" copy of the Koran and burned all the versions that he deemed "variations," something forgotten about by Muslims who believe the Koran they hold now is the same Koran the early Muslims had.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04232209481041145155noreply@blogger.com