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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

That's the usual assumption. Of course, different folks have different 
lengths of arm and finger.

Yigal
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  In a message dated 9/4/2005 3:34:51 PM Central Daylight Time, 
leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il writes: 

  Hi Yigal, 

  I understood a "cubit" to be the distance between the elbow and the tip of 
the forefinger, or about 18 inches. 

  Doug 


    Yes, there are some other incongruities in the article as well. The 
Hebrew 
    word "amah" ("cubit") does not mean "elbow", but rather "forearm". 

    Yigal



  Rev. Doug Pickrel, Litt.D. 
  Tejas Valley 
  San Antonio, Texas
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Huh? It would not have mattered what he used, as long as he used the same 
thing for both sides.

Yigal
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  In a message dated 9/4/2005 4:53:19 PM Central Daylight Time, 
leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il writes: 

  Yigal, isn't this the same problem with the forearm: big people, large 
forearms and little people, little forearms.  The way I look at it, it's a 
good thing Noah used his forearm for a cubit otherwise one side of the Ark 
would have been shorter the other. 

  Doug. 



    That's the usual assumption. Of course, different folks have different 
lengths of arm and finger. 

    Yigal



  Rev. Doug Pickrel, Litt.D. 
  Tejas Valley 
  San Antonio, Texas
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On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Jim West wrote:

> Dave wrote
>
>>
>>> Look at this forum.  We have folks of every level of knowledge from the
>>> newborn to the lifetime-fluent, and we all talk to each other, share ideas
>>> and exchange information and topics.  It really doesn't matter that X has 
>>> a
>>> Ph.D. and Y doesn't, everybody has an equal voice here.
>
> I am always amazed at the disregard that people have for professionally
> trained biblical scholars.  They are a sort of "whipping boy" for all
> those who imagine that one person's opinion is just as valid as another.
>  You cannot name one other field of professional studies where this
> claim is made so regulary, frequently, or inaccurately.

Take a pill, Jim.  That's not what I said.  Please read the entire context
of what I write before you do this sort of thing.

As for the doctor comparison, my wife has been a registered nurse for over
10 years and believe me, having the letters "MD" after your name is about
as
much a guarantee that you have any sense as having the letters "PH.D"
after your name, i.e. it depends on the individual.  Any clown can get
through school.  I know, I've done it ;-)  The question is not, how many
letters do you have after your name, but what do you do with the knowledge
you've acquired?  My point was that I only got as far as MA, and that has
definitely been a death sentence as far as being able to teach was
concerned.  At the same time, there simply are no jobs in the field (at
least in America); I knew more than one PH.D. who ended up pumping gas for
a living (literally).

When I said everybody is equal here, I meant - and I said in so many words
- that everybody can set their ideas out here for discussion.  If you had
read my whole post instead of doing this ridiculous knee-jerk thing, you
would have realized that.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Maybe I'll trade it for a new hat."