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Haplography and Philology: A Study of Ode of Solomon 16:8
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page 222 note 1 We could object by asking why the Odist should make sense. The proper response, of course, is that to presume otherwise is fruitless.
page 222 note 2 Labourt, J. and Batiffol, P., Les Odes de Salomon (Paris: Lecoffre, 1911), p. 17.Google Scholar
page 224 note 1 Parentheses denote words initially omitted by the copyist; brackets circumscribe the attempted restoration.
page 224note 2 The Odes and Psalms of Solomon (Manchester: University Press; New York: Longmans, 1920), 11, 284 f.Google Scholar
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page 225 note 1 Thesaurus Syriacus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879)Google Scholar, col. 820. He recorded that DGL in the Peal means ‘levit’, ‘illevit’, ‘decepit’, ‘mentitus fuit’, but failed to note that it also means ‘examinavit’. L. Costaz also recorded only that DGL in the Peal denotes ‘to direct (the dart), to aim at’. Diction-naire Syriaque–Français; Syriac–English Dictionary (Beirut: Catholique, 1963), p. 58Google Scholar. The additional meaning of DGL is not recorded in the supplements to the Thesaurus: Margoliouth, J. P., Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927)Google Scholar; Schleifer, J., ‘Berichtigungen und Ergänzungen zum Supplement des Thesaurus Syriacus’, Orientalia, n.s. 8 (1939). 25–58.Google Scholar
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page 225 note 12 In the new edition to be published by Scholars Press I have corrected ‘it reveals’ to ‘it perceives’. Even though dagālu in Accadian (= Assyrian) can mean ‘to hand over’ (especially in legal and covenantal relationships), I erred in thinking DGL in the Peal could be stretched to mean ‘exposes’ or ‘reveals’. ‘Perceives’ is preferable to ‘scrutinizes’ (Harris-Mingana); The Word of the Lord would not need to examine the thought of the Lord. I am tempted to restore the text since the only extant manuscript bears ample signs of haplography. Perhaps it is wise to be conservative since a text should receive an emendation only when it is incomprehensible without it.
page 226 note 1 The Odes and Psalms of Solomon (Cambridge: C.U.P. 1909), loc. cit. [A copy was unavailable when I attempted to supply the page number.]
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page 226 note 9 Das Verständnis, p. 17.
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page 227 note 1 Le Odi, p. 187.
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page 227 note 6 Note that in Accadian (= Assyrian) DGL can mean ‘to hand over’. It is possible that DGL in the Peal in Syriac also denotes ‘to communicate’ or ‘to make clear’.
page 227 note 7 Les Odes, p. 1.