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[b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?

From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:13:16 +0100

GENESIS 18:22

"the Lord yet stood before Abraham" and "Abraham yet stood before the Lord"
the first sentence being substituted for the latter in the masoretic notes.

I do not understand why the scribes would object to the first rendering?

Chris Watts.

[b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?, wattswestmaas, 04/30/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?, Jim West, 04/30/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?, Yitzhak Sapir, 04/30/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?, Heard, Christopher, 04/30/2005
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?, Uri Hurwitz, 04/30/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?, Heard, Christopher, 04/30/2005