TEXTUAL_VARIANT
VAR_ISA_53_11_LIGHTEvidence state: documented fact
1QIsaᵃ is reported with אור (“light”) after “he will see,” while the Masoretic/WLC form represented locally lacks אור. v51 records the attested difference and does not declare which reading is original.
Competing interpretations
Classification: disputed interpretation
Note: The longer reading is adopted by many textual critics/translations and has multiple ancient witnesses; the Archive does not convert that scholarly judgment into an automatic “original text” declaration.
What this does not establish
The variant record does not prove which reading is original.
The Great Isaiah Scroll reading is not substituted for the local WLC/OSHB edition.
No GRCLXX token alignment to the Hebrew scroll is asserted.
Scope boundary: John Meade’s article also lists 1QIsaᵇ, 4QIsaᵈ and Greek evidence, but v51 links only the already cataloged 1QIsaᵃ entity as direct manuscript evidence. Those additional witnesses require their own evidence entities/records before graph linkage.
Variation unit
Recorded readings
MANUSCRIPT_ATTESTED_READING
יראה אור וישבע
documented fact
EDITION_READING
יראה ישבע
documented fact
No originality judgment: This object records the variation unit and evidence relationships without choosing an original reading.
- Release Introduced
- v51
- Passage Id
- PASSAGE_ISA_53_11
- Language
- Hebrew
- Variation Unit
- יראה + אור? + וישבע / ישבע
- Evidence Classification
- documented fact
- Evaluation State
- NO_ORIGINAL_READING_JUDGMENT
- Status
- ACTIVE_VARIANT_RECORD