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Re: An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche

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

An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche, L.M. Barre, 05/01/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche, Ian Hutchesson, 05/02/1999
- Re: An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche, dano, 05/03/1999
- SV: An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche, Thomas L. Thompson, 05/04/1999
- SV: An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche, Thomas L. Thompson, 05/05/1999
- re: SV: An Invitiation for Professors Thompson and Lemche, L.M. Barre, 05/06/1999