Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Samuel does not mean asked of God,
although it says that in the text.
Shaul means asked of God.
Shemuel is El is their name, or something like that.
Don't believe everything you read.
The things that you're liable to read in the Bible,
ain't necessarily so.
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christine Bass [mailto:christinebass AT home.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:03 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: Written by Women.???
> 
> 
> 
> > > As I interpret the scriptures to say, they are inspired by God----and
> were
> > > written down by men.
> > > Which is a bit of a different take on the subject. No?
> 
> 
> 
> > Can I believe my own eyes?!! "Written down by MEN"?? - and from you!
> 
> 
> Yes!!! Believe it Samuel!
>  Believe your own eyes, that is---(ahem)
> that is exactly what I wrote.
> 
> Moses, for example, the Hebrew Scripture reads, met with God---and talked
> with God----
> and God told him what to say. It was given to him. By God. (Now 
> that is what
> the Hebrew Scripture says.)
> This is what I mean by the term "inspired"---it was directed. The 
> initiating
> force was from God----it did not
> originate from the mind of man.
> 
> Even stranger, __God  Himself Wrote__ a few things down  for Moses.......
> 
> 
> "the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the
> other were they written.
> And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the 
> writing of God,
> graven upon the tablets."
> 
> (Genesis 32:15-16)
> 
> 
> 
> > From the very uninspired
> >
> > Samuel
> 
> 
> I do love the name "Samuel"--asked of God----I gave my firstborn son this
> name.  And, Samuel, please,  keep posting, ---I love having a variety
> of perspectives, ----it adds spice to the list. :-)
> 
> 
> >From the Very Inspired,
> 
> Christine
> 
> 
> 
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