Biblical Hebrew Forum

[jim west <jwest AT Highland.Net>]

At 04:06 PM 10/29/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Dear  all,
>
>I am new to the list  and think that this interesting discussion is moving
>more and more outside of  the domain of  "hebrew studies", but may I add one
>more point" :-)?

agreed

>
>If my memory serves me right, isn't  it so that [in the intertestamental
>period] there is also some evidence of  Jewish writers expecting the Mesiah
>to be born by virgin birth? 

If you would be so good as to offer a citation or two.

>If so, then the concept of  virigin birth is not
>so alien to Judaism as many in this discussion are assuming. Furthermore,
>there was a tradition in diaspora Judaism of the virginal conception of  the
>patriarchs. (See Philo; De Cherubim 13).

Philo uses the same greco-roman "great man" theory I mentioned earlier.  So,
he gets it not from the HB but from his environment.

best,

Jim
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