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- From: kdlitwak <kdlitwak AT concentric.net>
- To: Lewis Reich <lewreich AT javanet.com>
- Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 21:45:28 -0700
Lewis Reich wrote:
> 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.
>
Since we cannot say for sure how the readers might have understood this, or
in fact if
there would have been only interpretation on their pat, I cannot see that your
requirement is intrinsically necessary.
Ken Litwak
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Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
, (continued)
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/29/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/29/1999
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Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin,
Joseph Crea, 10/30/1999
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Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin,
Ken Litwak, 10/30/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Joseph Crea, 10/30/1999
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Message not available
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Stephen C. Carlson, 10/30/1999
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Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin,
Ken Litwak, 10/30/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Ken Litwak, 10/30/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/30/1999
- Re: Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Joe A. Friberg, 10/30/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Lewis Reich, 10/31/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, kdlitwak, 10/31/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Dave Washburn, 10/31/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, John Ronning, 10/31/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, jim west, 10/31/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Moshe Shulman, 10/31/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Moshe Shulman, 10/31/1999
- Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Jonathan Bailey, 10/31/1999
- Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin, Moshe Shulman, 10/31/1999
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