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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Argumentum e silentio (trivial)
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:39:14 -0700


And of course the HB starts with a baseball game "In the big
inning," and the shortest man in the Bible was Bildad the Shuhite,
and Samson was such a great comic that he brought down the
house, and so on ;-)

> Humour is a bit hard to transmit over internet, Raymond. But let me just
> correct you about cars in the biblical accounts. There was at least one car
> in the OT/HB: don't you remember when Moses blazed across the desert in his
> Triumph? But then again, nobody knows that there is a game of tennis in the
> OT/HB either: I'm sure everyone knows that Joseph served in the courts of
> pharaoh.
>
>
> Ian
>
>
> >Not a feeble attempt at reductio ad absurdum, but a feeble attempt at
> humor;
> >see the icon after the microwave oven remark. I am sorry that we apparently
> >do not share the same sense of humor.
>
>
>
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Dave Washburn
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"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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