The First Book of Samuel (Classic Reprint): With Map, Notes and Introduction: With Map, Notes and Introduction (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The two most important mss. Of the LXX containing the book of Samuel are the Alexandrine ms. (denoted by the letter A) written in the fifth century. And now preserved in the British Museum; and the Vatican ms. (denoted by the letter B) assigned to the fourth century, and preserved in the Vatican Library at Rome. The text of the former in the Book of Samuel has been corrected for the most part to agree with the existing Hebrew text: that of the latter differs considerably from it, and although disfigured by mistakes, glosses, marginal notes inserted in the text by ignorant scribes, and similar defects, appears to preserve evidence for an original text older and in some places more correct than the existing Hebrew recensionl.

That the Hebrew text of Samuel is by no means free from errors is clear from internal considerations and from a com parison of the passages which exist in duplicate elsewhere. These, with the exception of 1 Sam. Xxxi. Chr. X. 1 - 12) belong to the Second Book, and need not be enumerated here. The principal readings in which the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew are mentioned in the notes, partly with a View to the criticism of the text, partly to exhibit the form of the text which was current in a great part of the Christian Church for many centuries after its first foundation.

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