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- From: "Bill Ross" <BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com>
- To: "'Shoshanna Walker'" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>, "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: The OT?
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:10:26 -0500
<Shoshanna>
>>How about Jewish Bible and Christian Bible? Isn't that the most
correct?
<Bill>
The problem is that christians recognize both libraries, so Genesis is
in both the Jewish and christian bibles.
>>See? According to Jesus, the treasure is not found in one part, but
both.
<Shoshanna>
>>But Jesus is not our authority
<Bill>
For those who claim that Jesus is their authority, the OT/NT designation
would be appropriate, while the term "old testament" is just a 1611-type
tradition that should be shed.
It seems to me that the term "old things" if taken from a context of
being recognized as an abiding treasure, is not an intrinsically
offensive, at least crassly offensive designation.
In other words, if I say that some of my wine is old and some is new, it
doesn't insult the older wine, while it distinguishes it.
Now I am not saying that the christian position of a *superior* covenant
is thereby taken away, but the documents are put in a perspective that
is consistent with the christian scriptures themselves.
Bottom line: call them what you want, but the term "testament" is an
inapropriate one by any measure. [Or is the Tanach a "testament?!"]
Bill Ross
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Re: The OT?
, (continued)
- Re: The OT?, Nancy Johnson, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Peter Kirk, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Schmuel, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, soren, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Dave Washburn, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Dave Washburn, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Bill Ross, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/25/2002
- RE: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/25/2002
- RE: The OT?, Dave Washburn, 08/25/2002
- RE: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/25/2002
- Re: The OT?, Jonathan D. Safren, 08/25/2002
- Re: The OT?, Jonathan D. Safren, 08/25/2002
- The OT?, JwReform, 08/25/2002
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RE: The OT?,
Bill Ross, 08/25/2002
- Re: The OT?, Jonathan D. Safren, 08/25/2002
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- Re: The OT? - evidence for canon of Hebrew Scriptures by DSS and Josephus, Schmuel, 08/25/2002
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