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Document Details : Title: Samson the ‘Holy One’ Subtitle: A Suggestion Regarding the Reviser’s Use of ἅγιος Judg 13,7; 16,17 LXX Vaticanus Author(s): CHEPEY, Stuart D. Journal: Biblica Volume: 83 Issue: 1 Date: 2002 Pages: 97-99 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.83.1.3200296 Abstract : While the use of the Greek term ἅγιος, ‘holy one’, as a reference to Samson and rendering of the Hebrew religious technical term נזיר, ‘Nazirite’, in LXXB Judg 13,7 and 16,17 seems odd given their lexical disparity, an association between the terms does occur in the law for the Nazirite to be holy respecting the growth of hair in Num 6,5.8. A contextual similarity between the Numbers passage and Judg 13,5.7 and 16,17 occurs in that Samson is accorded only one proscription — the use of a razor upon his head. It is likely therefore, perhaps as a way of introducing a new and unintelligible term, that the reviser of LXXB Judg followed the word association made in Num 6,5.8 and used the two terms, ναζιρ in 13,5 and ἅγιος in 13,7 and 16,17, interchangeably in his version of the Samson story. |
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