Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

People,

Since we're no longer really discussing either "Definite Article" or "Isaiah 
7:14", please change the subject line to "virginity".

Thank y'all,

Yigal Levin

co-moderator

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tory Thorpe" <torythrp AT yahoo.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Definite Article 7:14


> On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:25 AM, dwashbur AT nyx.net wrote:
>
> > How does Gen 34:3 suggest any lack of physical virginity?  Are you
> > basing this idea on the
> > fact that PARQENOS in that verse translates NA(AR in Hebrew?  I
> > have no idea what your
> > point is from this verse, or how it "shows" anything.
> >
> > Dave Washburn
> > But I can't say Sylvester, George!
>
> It's very simple. If the word PARQENOS meant only physical virginity
> to Alexandrian Jewish translators then Dinah was still a physical
> virgin even after being raped according to the Greek translation of
> Gen. xxxiv 3. Now I suppose its possible the translators may have
> felt that Dinah remained pure and that by some miracle her hymen was
> not broken; but it is painfully obvious that the usage of PARQENOS
> among Jews in the 3rd century BCE could not have been limited to
> women who never had intercourse. One simply has to keep this in mind
> when reading the Greek version of Isa. vii 14.
>
> Tory Thorpe
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