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  • From: jim west <jwest AT Highland.Net>
  • To: winedt <winedt AT bbits.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
  • Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:08:08 -0400


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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