Original sentence: Rabbi Simon ben Pazzi (third century) calls these readings "emendations of the Scribes" (tikkune Soferim; Midrash Genesis Rabbah xlix.Removal of application of the names of false gods to YHVH; e.The term tikkun Soferim has been understood by different scholars in various ways.There are phenomena in the Biblical text which have led some to assume that at some time textual corrections had been made, of four general types:.substitution of "Elohim" for "YHVH" in some passages.the change of the name "Ishbaal" to "Ishbosheth.the latter shrank from putting in writing a thought which some of the readers might expect them to express.to avoid anthropomorphism and anthropopathism)
Edited sentence: , substitution of "Elohim" for "YHVH" in some passages., the change of the name "Ishbaal" to "Ishbosheth., the latter shrank from putting in writing a thought which some of the readers might expect them to express., to avoid anthropomorphism and anthropopathism).Rabbi Simon ben Pazzi (third century) calls these readings "emendations of the Scribes" ("tikkune Soferim"; Midrash Genesis Rabbah xlix.Removal of application of the names of false gods to Yhwh; e.The term "tkkun Soferim" has been understood by different scholars in various ways.There are phenomena in the Biblical text which force one to assume that at some time textual corrections had been made.These corrections may be classified under the following heads: