Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 12:11 AM 1/30/01 -0600, Christian M. M. Brady wrote:
> 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.

But this is irrelevant to the words in the text.

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


:)


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