Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 26/10/2006 17:52, K Randolph wrote:
> ...
> > 5) The tablets would have had to meet these expected customary forms to be
> > accepted as authoritative... whether or not there was a wall to display
> > them on. In this case, they were placed in a carry-case called an ark
> >
> >     
> This is a leap, to say that they had to be tablets.
>
>   
Karl, I haven't been following all of this in detail, but are you really 
trying to deny that the commandments were written on stone tablets? That 
seems clear from Exodus 24:12, 31:18, 34:4. The tablets seem to have 
been small enough to be carried in his hand, but also large enough for 
what was written on them - and it is not clear whether this is to be 
understood as just the Ten Commandments but also chapters 21-23. I 
suppose the exact meaning of the Hebrew might be reinterpreted, but if 
LXT 'BN doesn't mean "stone tablets", of some size or other, what does 
it mean?

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