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Re: BETULIM

From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: BETULIM
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:37:20 -0500

At 03:24 PM 1/30/01 +0000, Peter Kirk wrote:

I had understood BETULIM to refer to the cloth spread on the marriage bed
which was supposed to become stained with blood as evidence that the bride
had been a virgin. That is still the custom in the Middle East today.

No Peter. This cloth shows signs that she had betulim.

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BETULIM, Peter Kirk, 01/30/2001
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