Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Wagner" <Dan.Wagner AT datastream.net>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:45 AM
Subject: virgin: _BETHULAH_ and/or _(ALMAH_


> Thus, Isaiah uses the term _(ALMAH_, the technical term, because a
> social-class term would not drive home his point of a miraculous event in
> the way the more technical term does. He also uses _(ALMAH_ because it,
> unlike _BETHULAH_, is the only word that can never be demonstrated to
> reference a woman of sexual experience.

But the context of this scenario is that the "young woman" is already
pregnant
and the birth is near. Before the child reaches the age of discrimination
(12yo)
the "you know what" would hit the fan...and it did.

Jack
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