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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] daughters jacob never spoke of
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:02:33 -0500

Shoshanna Walker wrote:

"coloring the truth" - my words, not Rashi's or Abraham's, I could have used different phrases but - I thought this was a list about semantics in Hebrew, not English.

The point being, that for whatever reasons Avraham thought he needed to "lie" (which is not the point of this discussion, but we can cite that, too...commentaries explain that in verse 2) - he did his best to remain as close to the truth as possible.


HH: This is what I don't agree with. You are calling Abraham a liar, and I am not. That is the point of the discussion. There's no need to gratuitously call him a liar. Scripture does not require that.

What difference does it make what you or I think would have been simpler to have been written in the Torah, the Torah is very precise in every single letter, including missing ones, and enlarged ones, why it is written the way it is written.


HH: Shoshanna, I tried to explain to you why the Book of Genesis did not mention Sarah's birth details in Genesis 11. It is extraneous to the flow of the text.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard







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