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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
  • Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 21:27:45 -0400


On 29 Oct 99, at 22:16, Ken Litwak wrote:

> a) almah cannot mean virgin or that no reader would have guessed that in
> Isa 7:14 it meant that.

Even if almah did mean virgin you'd have to show that the meaning
of the text wasn't:

behold this [young woman who is now a] virgin will [marry and then]
become pregnant and give birth to a son,

but instead was:

behold a virgin [sometime in the future] will [without having lost her
virginal status] become pregnant and give birth to a son.


Lewis Reich




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