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Re: Biblical Humor

From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Biblical Humor
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 06:19:28 -0700

> Don't forget the shortest man in the Bible, Bildad the Shuhite.

Yeah, they used to think it was Knee-high-miah...the Bible starts
with a baseball game, "In the big inning"...

> And for the Christians on the list, the most awkward man in the gospels was
> the father of the Prodigal son, who "went out to meet [his returning son]
> and fell on his neck."

LOL! I hadn't heard that one before. Thanks!

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

Re: Biblical Humor, Christine Bass, 02/22/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Biblical Humor, Charles David Isbell, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, Dave Washburn, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, Charles David Isbell, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, Jonathan D. Safren, 02/23/2001
- RE: Biblical Humor, Jay Childs, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, David Stabnow, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, Christine Bass, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, Cindy Smith, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, Charles David Isbell, 02/23/2001
- Re: Biblical Humor, Raymond de Hoop, 02/24/2001
- RE: Biblical Humor, Tan Chee Leong, 02/24/2001
- RE: Biblical Humor, Peter Kirk, 02/24/2001