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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
  • Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 09:34:03 -0500


At 06:09 AM 10/31/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Lewis 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.
>Excuse me, but the latter appears to be the plain sense of the text
>since there is no explicit mention of marriage or sexual relations.
>Hence it seems to me the burden of proof is on the end with these
>undocumented additions.

But it does have an explicit reference to a specific virgin. (heh yoduah)
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