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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew as a holy language
  • Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:53:34 +0100

Hi,


Quoting Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>:

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:25 PM, James Read wrote:
Thank you.

To the best of my recollection I haven't stated one. And rightly so. Because
I don't, as yet, even have one.

Great, so now we can continue the discussion?


Sure.


Even if you don't think yourself to have a position, you do seem to have one.
For example, you began the discussion by suggesting we postulate all kinds
of things.

Yeah. If we don't sandbox the discussion then it is becomes impossible to analyse the meaning of the text as the author intended it to be understood. There are obviously contextual factors that the author took it for granted that we would simply know like what language was spoken by which people in which country. While it was probably a fair assumption with his direct audience the sands of time have made those assumptions less valid. Sandboxing the discussion allows us to analyse these assumptions.

James Christian




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