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

From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:18:00 +0200

----- Original Message ----- From: "Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s AT rad.com>
According to Exodus,

the Sabbath is to be observed in XRY$ and QCYR,
not "all year round".

Without getting into the whole debate, XRY$ and QCYR here are verbs, "plowing and harvesting", which are forbidden on the Sabbath, not "you shall rest at plowing-time and at harvest-time". If they did that, what would they eat?

Yigal Levin

Re: [b-hebrew] Two X letters , (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Shoshanna Walker, 10/22/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Yaakov Stein, 10/23/2007
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Assumptions about ANE ages that just don't work., Yigal Levin, 10/23/2007