LE PENTATEUQUE – UNE CANTATE A PLUSIEURS VOIX

AUTEUR : JEAN LOUIS SKA

ABSTRACT

With the help of three examples, Deut 32 :8-9; Gen 18,3; Gen 22,2, this article endeavours to show that there is a plurality in the different forms of the text at our disposal. The Masoretic Text has no monopoly from a critical point of view. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Qumran texts cannot be considered as basically sectarian texts. The LXX, the Vetus Latina, the Vulgate and the Peshitta are all but mediocre translations of a standard text. We find in them authentic witnesses of a text that was transmitted in different forms and was modified, corrected, expanded or interpreted in the course of its transmission. The interpretation of the text begins in the text itself.