Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Christian M. M. Brady" <cbrady AT tulane.edu>]

On 1/29/01 11:40 AM, "Moshe Shulman" <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> At 05:14 AM 1/29/01 -0500, Dan Wagner wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jonathan D. safren [mailto:yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il]
>>> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 04:17
>>> To: Biblical Hebrew
>>> Subject: Re: virgin: _BETHULAH_ and/or _(ALMAH_
>>>      If the verse is to be viewed in context, which is the
>>> only basis for
>>> philological - and not Christological - discussion,
>> .. except that you should recognize that Christology (Messiahism) is an
>> important component of Biblical Hebrew thought. They cannot be divorced.
>> Nevertheless, i will keep to philology for the remainder of this post.
> 
> That is ONLY true for those who are evangelical Christians.
> 
Not really, for lots of reasons, but I will offer only one: the expectation
of the messiah was not new to the followers of Jesus and most of the
passages interpreted by the NT authors as messianic either already had those
overtones in the Tanakh or were already understood in that vein before Jesus
was a glimmer in anyone's eye.

Now, you may be right, Moshe, in assessing Dan's personal position, but that
is another issue.

Cb
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