57 STRIKING SHEPHERD THE agrees with the LXX. This evidently concerns romfa¥a for Ω ı brj (maxaira, which Aquila and Symmachus have here, ¥ and which also occurs as a translation of brj in Zech 11,17 LXX, would do just as well). To a lesser extent, it also con- cerns ejege¥rein for rw[, and anhr for rbg. ß ı ߥ B. On several points, Justin’s quotation renders the Hebrew better than the LXX did. In the first and fourth line of the quotation, we find the singular ton poimena instead of the ù ¥ plural toyv poimenav. Further, there is, again in the fourth ù ¥ line, the singular patajon instead of the plural patajate. ¥ ¥ In the final line diaskorpisuhsontai is a good translation ¥ of –yxwpt, “they will be scattered”, whereas the LXX’s ek-ß spasate is not. ¥ So the LXX must have constituted the reviser’s starting point, and he corrected it to make a better agreement with the Hebrew text. In two details the quotation deviates from both the Hebrew text and the LXX. Toy laoy moy, “of my people”, in the second line ˜ ˜ presupposes ym[ instead of ytym[ (as do the translations of Aquila and Symmachus); it may reflect a different Hebrew text, or be the re- sult of an effort of the reviser to circumvent the rare Hebrew word tym[. Ta probata aytoy, “his sheep”, in the fifth line might pre- ù ¥ ߘ suppose wnax instead of –axh, but it is probably no more than a sim- ple elucidation of the text by the reviser: “the sheep” are the shep- herd’s own sheep. Both details are consistent with the usual work of a reviser. In one instance, the reviser has preferred an alternative correct rendering of the Hebrew: he has translated twabx hwhy, “the Lord of hosts”, not by kyriov pantokratwr but by kyriov twn ¥ ¥ ¥ ˜ dynamewn. This suggests that the revision belongs to the kaige- ¥ group 48. The revision does not show Christian interpretation: the imperative patajon, “strike”, addressed by God to the sword, is ¥ maintained and not replaced by patajw, “I will strike”. ¥ Justin first makes use of a Christian source which contains a succinct but clear reference to Zech 13,7, and then he quotes from a running text, which appears to be a revised LXX, more specifi- cally a member of the kaige-group. All this is completely See D. BARTHÉLEMY, Les devanciers d’Aquila. Première publication in- 48 tégrale du texte des fragments du Dodécaprophéton trouvés dans le désert de Juda (VTS 10 ; Leiden 1963) 82-83.