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  • From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Flying or Darting in Isaiah 14:29 and 30:6
  • Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 21:47:59 -0700

www.rae.org/pteroets.html

Pterosaurs huh? Based on the text and context I would disagree. Something
as unusual as pterosaurs would, I think, be remarked upon by the author of
Isaiah. I would expect that if a pterosaur were seen in the ANE, it would be
an unusual event. Some much so that the author would draw attention to it in
some way. Yet the text betrays no special concern with these flying
serpents, they appear nothing more than a metaphor for something dangerous
and venomous, something to be avoided but not unusal.

--
Jack Tladatsi




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