@Davïd I don’t think about all of the textual emendation stuff being related to cognates, but I guess a lot of it is. I’ve had in mind for a while to ask something like, “How does Ugaritic help us understand the Hebrew Bible?” (don’t worry, I won’t! - just don’t know enough to ask a more focused question at this point), but maybe I’ll read that book instead.

The Emerton article (speech?) was available in full except one page - pretty good deal. That is a helpful introduction to the personalities involved. (I guess by ψ lxxix 41 it means lxxviii 41 (p.14), but I don’t understand that discussion at all. He’s saying that the root is not twh but ’br? [I can’t figure out how to make ayin/alef transliterations go the right direction; that’s an ayin.])

@Davïd Searching for emendation yields 19 posts, ~half of which are about NT! Basically any text criticism question where one posits scribal emendation. That’s straightforwardly text-criticism. I think we’re talking specifically about scholarly emendation to (of?) the MT, though, right? (My impression is that there’s no room for scholarly emendation of NT mss, but maybe I’m wrong...) Hmmm.

@Davïd Re. key clause - when did “procreate” become a transitive verb? Presumably somewhere in the midst of his dissertation, "Yahweh as a Sexual Deity in J’s Prehistory”.

My word of the day: μιαροφαγέω. +μιαρός. Seems to be a Maccabees thing.

^^^I know his tone can be abrasive, but I actually thought this was a good question.