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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Ben Crick <ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] nevi
  • Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:21:24 +0100

On 17/08/2005 23:07, Ben Crick wrote:

On Wed 17 Aug 2005 (20:59:07 +0100), peterkirk AT qaya.org wrote:

Are you sure that these references are to all three sections of the Hebrew scriptures, and not only to the first two? I ask in reference to
the recent mention of Acts 13:15 where, if later Jewish custom is a
good guide, the reference is actually to these two sections, and not
to the Writings. See also Luke 24:44 where there is an apparent
explicit reference to all three sections of Scripture, with the
Writings referred to as the Psalms.


No, Peter, I'm not certain. Luke 24:44 says "... all things must be
fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets,
and in the psalms, concerning me". Does this mean that the Wisdom
literature was/is not read in the synagogues? I don't know.

I always assumed that when the rich man was told by Abraham that his
brothers "have Moses and the Prophets" that the whole Hebrew Bible was
meant (Luke 16:31). On the Emmaus Road, Jesus "beginning at Moses and
all the prophets, ... expounded to them *in all the Scriptures* the things
concerning himself". Here the phrase "Moses and the Prophets" would seem
to include the Writings also.


Well, I would tend to assume that "beginning with Moses and all the prophets ... all the scriptures" in Luke 24:27 refers to the same books as "the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms ... the scriptures" in Luke 24:44-45. I doubt if this is intended to exclude Proverbs, Job, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah and the Megillot. And the same may be true of e.g. Luke 16:31, although the reference here to "*hear* Moses and the prophets" may be an explicit allusion to what was read in the synagogue (and so be relevant to the thread on Haftarot). But as you say we can't be sure.

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