Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 05/12/2006 16:33, K Randolph wrote:
> ...
> We should not take our situation and project it onto a situation other
> than ours. The context is that rebelling would introduce death, an
> action that did not exist prior to rebellion, as made explicit in the
> understanding of the first century Jews who wrote the New Testament.
>
>   
This understanding was made explicit before the NT. See for example 
Sirach (Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus) 25:24: "From a woman sin had its 
beginning, and because of her we all die." (NRSV) See also my comments 
on this passage at 
http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2006/11/some-verses-i-am-glad-are-not-in-my.html.

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