Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Kenneth,

There's no reason for you to be "in trouble", but I don't think that Ted 
intended to insult anyone. While I don't agree with his asessment, he does 
have a right to state his opinion.

Yigal Levin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 9:10 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] 1Q287 Tanakh Deut. 32:43


> Ted,
>
> I think it was kind of insulting to Jewish people to say that the 
> Masoretic scholars would drop a quote from the Torah because it could be 
> used as a proof text by Christians. You said that all people are biased, 
> so maybe you believe that Christians added some proof texts. I know that 
> we can't discuss religion on B-hebrew, but it does not seem fair that you 
> can say bad things about Jewish people, but you don't say bad things about 
> Christian people.
>
> I think the Jewish scholars did not drop controversial quotes from the 
> Torah because there are many so called "proof texts" in the Tanakh. If 
> they had dropped them, then there would be many fewer quotes, and this 
> particular quote you pointed out does not even sound like a Messianic 
> proof quote to me.
>
> I will probably be in trouble for writing this, but I can't believe what 
> you said, and that nobody said anything about it.
>
> Kenneth Greifer
>
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