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- From: jim west <jwest AT Highland.Net>
- To: Will Wagers <hyle AT airmail.net>
- Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:31:50 -0400
At 12:07 PM 10/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>it is, thus, not a "reporting of an actual event" but the adaptation of a
>roman myth which was applied to christianity's own "great man"- jesus.
>
>Possibly, but *virgin births* for semidivines are known throughout the
>ANE, e.g Sargon.
absolutely. but then one has to wonder which milieu was closer to the early
christian movement- roman society or assyrian. which seems to be nearer
chronologically? which is the more likely source of belief?
either way, the arrival of a virgin born great man is absent from hebrew
theology but present in many others- including nascent christianity.
jim
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Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin,
Eric Rasmusen, 10/27/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Joe A. Friberg, 10/28/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/28/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, John Ronning, 10/28/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/28/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, kdlitwak, 10/29/1999
- Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, peter_kirk, 10/29/1999
- Re: Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Moshe Shulman, 10/29/1999
- Re: Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Will Wagers, 10/29/1999
- Re: Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/29/1999
- Re: Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Jack Kilmon, 10/29/1999
- Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Lewis Reich, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Lewis Reich, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, winedt, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Ian Hutchesson, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, kdlitwak, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, John Ronning, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, John Ronning, 10/29/1999
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