Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

Feel free to suggest, but the fact is that there are people in the world even 
now who can do 
it with much less effort than is required by us lazy-minded westerners.

I'm not going to sit here and argue this with you.  The fact is, your idea is 
anachronistic and 
fails to take into account the vast differences in culture between us today 
and those living in 
the time when the OT and NT were produced.  It's a bit like asking if Moses 
had unleaded 
gasoline for his chariot.

On 23 Dec 2010 at 17:13, fred burlingame wrote:

> 
> permit me to suggest that even a prodigious savant would encounter
> difficulty memorizing the 
> countless, subtle andsignificant,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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