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  • 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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    • Re: BETULIM, Moshe Shulman, 01/30/2001

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