[b-hebrew] Harold: Re: To Harold: Tanach book order - different in Christian Bibles
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard at ont.com
Sun Sep 3 07:32:05 EDT 2006
Shoshanna Walker wrote:
>That is because NOT EVERYTHING was written in the Torah.
>
>How could the (great) Sanhedrin NOT have existed in pre exilic times
>- it had to meet at least in Eretz Yisrael, although its authority
>was diminished if it didn't meet in the Lishkat haGazit
>
>G-d didn't say anywhere in the Torah that the 70 elders that He
>commanded Moshe to appoint (and sit at their head), existed for the
>sake of Moshe.
>
>Why do you resist, despite all the information we have, that this
>wasn't the first Sanhedrin, even though it got that particular name
>later?
>
>
HH: If even the Jewish Encyclopedia does not think it existed in
pre-exilic times, then intelligent people can differ on this issue.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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