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

From: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
To: wattswestmaas <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 00:45:35 +0200

Chris Watts wrote:
> 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?

I do not see the first sentence at all. But perhaps it is
objectionable,because it implies the Lord has feet.

Yitzhak Sapir

[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