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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: "by lot"
  • Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 14:18:18 -0700


*raise hands in surrender* Okay, ya got me! Place my first response
in the "duu-uu-uh" file. And this one's a definite keeper. Thanks
for brightening my day!

> Now we have two theories. Dave's idea that the original question concerned
> "the practice of "casting lots" is of course only a guess. Soren's idea of
> "throwing Abe's nephew about to determine the will of God" is far more
> suggestive, it seems to me. But I have a third theory, which I have already
> shared privately with Thomas.
> My guess is that the original Hebrew phrase was 'al 'arey lot, "by the
> cities of Lot." Now an overheated scribe suffering from low sodium intake
> during the summer copying session, looking at the initial `Ayin of "cities,"
> thought that he had already copied it, and left it out. That is how "by the
> cities of Lot" became simply "by Lot." God, upset that errors could creep
> into the holy book that She had written perfectly the first time, decreed
> that the Bible be translated into Greek so that such mistakes could no
> longer occur. Then, because the tribes who had to work in the salt mines
> remained faithful, they were allowed to convert to Christianity and become
> "the salt of the earth."
> This is lost, of course, in the Latin corruption of the original Greek.
> For God's sake, folks, I'm only kidding. But, LSU beat Tennessee last
> night, and thus we know that all things are possible.
> Shalom,
> Charles
>
>
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Dave Washburn
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This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to
do with it.
-Emerson





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