Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

permit me to suggest that even a prodigious savant would encounter
difficulty memorizing the countless, subtle and significant, nuances of
vocalization, punctuation, word meanings, etc., that this document records.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome

http://aleppocodex.org/aleppocodex.html

regards,

fred burlingame

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:59 PM, <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:

> This difference is a fairly recent development.  In antiquity, they were
> virtually equivalent,
> partly because people were much more adept at memorizing what they heard
> than we are in
> the post-printing-press age.  So the difference you posit is anachronistic.
>
> On 23 Dec 2010 at 15:57, fred burlingame wrote:
>
> > a slight difference between:
> >
> > a. hearing the expert read the document; and
> >
> > b. reading the document oneself.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > fred burlingame
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Kevin Riley
> > <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>wrote:
> >
> > > So, all Paul's letters that he intended should be read in church
> > were 'not
> > > for public consumption'?  I guess it depends on what you mean by
> > 'public'?
> > >  I would have thought that manuscripts intended to be read in
> > public on a
> > > regular basis would qualify, but perhaps not.  Does one need to be
> > able to
> > > read in order to 'consume'?
> > >
> > > Kevin Riley
> > >
> > >
> > > On 24/12/2010 3:37 AM, fred burlingame wrote:
> > >
> > >> and the same answer applies.
> > >>
> > >> before the printing press, only the rich, the gov't., and the
> > church
> > >> possessed books; because of the cost.
> > >>
> > >>
> > http://www.ehow.com/facts_4924257_how-printing-press-changed-world.h
> > tml
> > >>
> > >> hence, the new testament in writing was manufactured not ...
> > for
> > >> common public consumption.
> > >>
> > >> regards,
> > >>
> > >> fred burlingame
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Uri Hurwitz<uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>  Since the NT contains many citations from the Hebrew
> > >>>  Bible, though in Greek translation, the new question in the
> > >>>  subject above seems justified, even in this list.
> > >>>
> > >>>  The answer to it should shed much light on the previous
> > >>>  question regarding public consumption.
> > >>>
> > >>>  Season's Greetings,
> > >>>
> > >>>  Uri Hurwitz                               Great Neck, NY
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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