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I Samuel 6:19

From: Robert Vining <rvining AT log.on.ca>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: I Samuel 6:19
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:54:37 -0400

Two questions- According to the best rendering of the most reliable
Hebrew text, did the Lord kill 70 or 50,070 BethShemishites? Did
the author deliberately choose the impossible number, 50,070 to signal
the mythical character of the story? per, Samuel Hooke, "Middle Easter
Mythology", p.154

Robert Vining, Owen Sound, Ontario rvining AT log.on.ca

I Samuel 6:19, Robert Vining, 07/27/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: I Samuel 6:19, Numberup, 07/27/1999
- Re: I Samuel 6:19, Kevin W. Woodruff, 07/27/1999
- I Samuel 6:19, Robert Vining, 07/31/1999