beckrl
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Post by beckrl on Jul 23, 2020 14:07:55 GMT
Daniel 11:1 As it seem there are a deference between the older Septuagint to that of the Masoretic Text.
SEPTUAGINT
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So why the chance? I know that both names in the Hebrew are very close in appearance, but why chance from the older version of the LXX?
Some consider them to be the same (Darius, Cyrus ), but I don't. Would it be simply a script error ? Got any info?
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Post by foxjj on Jul 24, 2020 3:15:09 GMT
Found this explanation re Daniel 11:1 on line;
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible
Also I - I the angel. He alludes here to what he had done on a former occasion to promote the interests of the Hebrew people, and to secure those arrangements which were necessary for their welfare - particularly in the favorable disposition of Darius the Mede toward them.
In the first year of Darius the Mede - See the notes at Daniel 5:31. He does not here state the things contemplated or done by Darius in which he had confirmed or strengthened him, but there can be no reasonable doubt that it was the purpose which he had conceived to restore the Jews to their own land, and to give them permission to rebuild their city and temple. Compare Daniel 9:1. It was in that year that Daniel offered his solemn prayer, as recorded in Daniel 9:2), the captivity would terminate; and in that year that an influence from above led the mind of the Persian king to contemplate the restoration of the captive people. Cyrus was, indeed, the one through whom the edict for their return was promulgated; but as he reigned under his uncle Cyaxares or Darius, and as Cyaxares was the source of authority, it is evident that his mind must have been influenced to grant this favor, and it is to this that the angel here refers.
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Post by beckrl on Jul 26, 2020 19:56:14 GMT
You might want to explain how his fits within my question.
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Post by beckrl on Jul 27, 2020 17:09:14 GMT
It would seem to me the following:
Chapter 2 in the second years of Nebuchaddnezzar .
Chapter 5 Belshazzar (Actually the son of Nabonidus)
Chapter 5-6 Darius the Mede received the kingdom of Babylon
Chapter 7 First year of Belshazzar ( retrospect, parentheses, written after the events)
Chapter 8 Third year of Belshazzar ( retrospect, parentheses, written after the events)
Chapter 9 First year of Darius the son of Ahaserus, seed of the Mede (now back to the first year of Darius)
Chapter 10 Third year of Cyrus of Persia
Chapter 11 Also I (certain man chp.10:5,18) in the First year of Cyrus (Septuagint) stood to confirm and strengthen him (Michael chp.10:21).
It would follow reason that the Septuagint had it correct in that the context was now concerning the reign of Cyrus instead of the version of Masoretic having Darius the Mede.
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