[b-hebrew] TORATI in Jer 31:33: Is it the Mosaic Torah?
Gary Hedrick
garyh at cjfm.org
Sun Sep 30 20:47:53 EDT 2007
We should note that God refers to the Sinai Law as "my covenant," not
merely as Moses' covenant (Ex. 19:5).
Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, Texas
On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:29 AM, "biblical hebrew" <jcr.bhebrew at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I think that if this had been referred to as Moshe's Torah then a
> good argument could have been made for this meaning that the entire
> law code would be written in their hearts. However, what should be
> taken in to consideration is that Yhwh is the speaker and he says
> 'my law' and not 'Moshe's law'. As already noted the law that was
> given to Moshe on Mount Sinai took the form of the ten words written
> by God's own finger. Most of Moshe's laws are ritual descriptions
> and 'what if' scenarios that are not covered directly by the ten
> commandments. And what do the ten commandments say? Basically they
> say 'Love Yhwh and be nice to people'. A person who understands this
> by nature (in his heart) is in no need of a large code which covers
> every possible 'what if' scenario because the instinctive knowledge
> of what is right guides him in every situation.
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> James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science
> http://www.lamie.org/hebrew Thesis 1 - Aleppo codex machine
> translation
> http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc Thesis 2 - language acquisition
> simulation
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