Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 16/07/2007 03:02, Tory Thorpe wrote:
> ...
> > HH: How is it that a Christian comment is partisan, but the JPS study
> > Bible is non-partisan? How is JPS non-partisan?
> >     
>
> The JPS footnote is nonpartisan because it does not attempt to  
> restrict the meaning of almah to a physical virgin, as you do  
> constantly. Any comment, be it from a christian or a martian, which  
> attempts to narrow the definition in such a way that physical  
> virginity is "generally to be assumed" is partisan.
>
>   
In other words, anyone who disagrees with you or tries to offer any 
evidence of any other position, whether "a christian or a martian", is 
partisan and ought to be denied the right to put forward that evidence. 
Tory, I more or less agree with you on this issue, but I am embarrassed 
to agree with someone taking the attitude you do. Instead, please let 
them offer their evidence, and then give your counter-arguments which, 
if they are as strong as you claim, should settle the matter.

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