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  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 7
  • Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:38:32 -0400

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:17:49 -0400 George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
writes:
>
> Oh, but I didn't say that one was and the other was not predictive
> prophecy. I will accept both as predictive prophecy. I said that
> the
> mention of Josiah was an insertion into the prophecy. Prophecy does
> not
> name specific names -- that is its nature. A prophet might say that
> the
> king of Judah would slaughter (BTW: I hope that you don't take the
> use
> of the word ZBX as indicating human sacrifice) the priests of
> Jeroboam's
> cultic site. That the name of Josiah is included can only be
> ascribed to
> a later insertion. One might accept Immanuel in Is 7.14 as being
> something the prophet himself had control over if "the young woman"
> were
> his wife or that he had spoken with this "young woman" who had told
> him
> that should it be a male she would thus name him or perhaps other
> speculative reasons regarding the inclusion of a name here (as to
> its
> being a male, he had a better than 50% chance of being right), but
> this
> is all speculative and I choose to not speculate.
>
> george
> gfsomsel
> ___________
> _______________________________________________

Hmm. Perhaps I should have said a decendent of "B"YT_DfWiD" rather than
"king of Judah. Interesting in light of the Tel Dan inscription.

george
gfsomsel
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