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Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work.

From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work.
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:18:36 -0400

In truth, trying to read the Torah - all of it - ONLY literally is definitely missing the point. And at the same time, the literal meaning (in Hebrew, not in translation) is also True.

Shoshanna

There is also a lot of symbolism in the dates. For example, Lamekh in Gen 4
is the 7th generation (Adam, Cain, Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methushael,
Lamekh). His avengement is "seven-fold," and in Gen 5, Lamekh lives 777
years. Enoch lives 365 years, and his connection to the calendar is explicit
in apocryphal books (such as the books of Enoch and Jubilees). Trying to
read the dates given in Genesis purely literally is to miss the point.

Yitzhak Sapir

Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Yaakov Stein, 10/21/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Yigal Levin, 10/21/2007
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Yitzhak Sapir, 10/21/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Bryant J. Williams III, 10/21/2007
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Shoshanna Walker, 10/21/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Shoshanna Walker, 10/21/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Shoshanna Walker, 10/21/2007
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Yigal Levin, 10/22/2007
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Bryant J. Williams III, 10/22/2007
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Yigal Levin, 10/22/2007
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., biblical hebrew, 10/22/2007
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., K Randolph, 10/22/2007
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        Re: [b-hebrew] [b-Hebrew] Hebrew-speaking Philistines, Kevin Riley, 10/22/2007
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] [b-Hebrew] Hebrew-speaking Philistines, Yitzhak Sapir, 10/23/2007