I’m reading through the new RJPS translation and I’m confused on some of the abbreviations in the footnotes.
For example, in 2 Sam 19:8 the footnote C says,
“So Septuagint, 4QSam and some other Heb. mss, and an ancient Masoretic tradition, ordinary texts omit “if.””
What is “other Heb mss”? Would that be recent Hebrew manuscripts (13th AD+) or manuscripts from like the Cairo Genizah?
What “ancient” Masoretic tradition? The Leningrad, Aleppo, & Sassoon all have the same text. The MAM also doesn’t list any variants for all the other Masoretic partial manuscripts. Also there aren’t any “ancient” Masoretic manuscripts, only medieval ones unless they’re pulling from other sources like the Talmud?
What “ordinary texts”? The Leningrad? It’s in the plural so what other texts?
Unless I’m missing something they don’t explain this either in the prefaces or the list of abbreviations. This probably isn’t the sub for these questions but maybe someone knows.
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