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  • From: Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche
  • Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 06:45:17 +0200


At 11.46 01/05/99 -0800, L.M. Barre wrote:
>Dear Professor Thompson and Professor Lemche,
>
>Your comments are cordially solicited with regard to the following verses:
>
>So it was that my grandfather Jesus, having devoted himself more and more to
>reading the Law and the Prophets and the other volumes of the fathers . . .
>(BS 1:7-8)

A question or two for Lloyd:

What exactly did Ben Sira intend by "the Law"? and please supply
contemporary evidence for your opinion.

(What might be evident a few centuries later might be totally irrelevant at
the time. People have a tendency to retroject ideas.)


Ian







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