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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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