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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: The Messianic Idea
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:08:29 -0700


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christian M. M. Brady [mailto:cbrady AT tulane.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:21 PM
> > To: Biblical Hebrew
> > Subject: Re: The Messianic Idea
> >
> >
> > On 1/30/01 1:16 PM, "Jonathan D. Safren" <yon_saf AT bezeqint.net> wrote:
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ben Crick" <ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk>
>
> > >> Isn't Hosea 3:4-5 the development of this prophecy?
> > >>
> > > Don't think sio, Ben. Hosea is a Northern prophet, speaking to the
> > > inhabitants of the Northern Kingdom, towhom the Davidic Covenant meant
> > > little.
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Jonathan D. Safren
> >
> > Then why the reference to David?
> >
> Probably added later in the post-exilic period by a Judaean.
> Although I think Anderson and Freedman in their commentary
> disagree.
>
> Liz Fried

This is always a convenient way to skirt problems, but there's no
real evidence for such an assertion beyond the wonderful
phenomenon of circular reasoning.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated." C. S. Lewis




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