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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] oral law
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:57:52 +0100

On 26/06/2006 04:42, Yigal Levin wrote:
... Peter and others, ... have attempted to "prove": ... that the prophets (including Jesus!) have made it clear that what is important is the moral aspects of the Torah, not the ritual ones.

You misquote me. I did not call Jesus a prophet or imply that he was. I wrote "As the prophets as well as Jesus made clear, ...", my point being that what I was saying was not (as had been alleged) just Christian teaching, but also the teaching of several prophets as recorded in the Hebrew Bible, which is what we are supposed to be studying on this list. It is intolerable that when I try to discuss the meaning of certain passages in the Torah I am told only what Jewish tradition says about them, and accused of importing Christian teachings just by comparing these passages with other parts of the Hebrew Bible.

People: point b. is exactly as Christian-faith-based as is Shoshanna's opinion Jewish-faith-based. Obviously any opinion based on sayings of Jesus is not relevant to Jewish tradition (I know that I'm going to ruffle some feathers with that one!). ...

I take you point, and that is precisely why I brought matters back to what was written by the biblical Hebrew prophets.

... Since we have all clarified out positions, any further debate, without introducing new evidence, DOES come close to proselytizing, which I, for one, DO think is not appropriate for this list. So unless someone comes up with something really new, that's my last word!

I did bring up new evidence, that of the Hebrew prophets. I can be more specific if you like. And the evidence Shoshanna has brought forward, concerning specific Bible verses, has not been properly discussed.


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