Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

Scholars will get around to that as soon as they finish reading tea leaves. 
The Torah did not predict Hitler or George Bush's stupidity.  The authors 
had their own problems in the Iron Age.

Jack

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From: "Joseph Roberts" <josephroberts3 AT gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:34 PM
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] My name in ancient Hebrew

> I think that Torah Codes is not protected from criticism is because
> it purports to be a form of language communication, Albeit a very
> complicated one based on a "matrix." If it is therefore a form
> of communication it is then subject to criticism by linguists and by
> extension peer review by mathematicians and the other sciences.
> -Joseph Roberts
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:18 AM
> > To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Subject: [b-hebrew] My name in ancient Hebrew
> >
> >
> >
> > > I have heard that the belief that you can count the letters of the Torah
> > > and find hidden words is part of Jewish tradition. I  thought on 
> > > B-Hebrew
> > > you can't attack other people's religious beliefs, so why are people 
> > > calling
> > > it part of the "dark side" of scholarship meant to make money. There are
> > > religious people who believe in it, so I think it is wrong to attack it 
> > > on a
> > > forum for discussing Biblical Hebrew and not religous beliefs of Jews 
> > > and
> > > some Christians who are now doing this.
> > > Why don't the commentators stop this anti-religious discussion?
> > >
> > > Kenneth Greifer
> >
> > Then by extension you would consider Brown's "Da Vinci Code" protected 
> > from
> > criticism because some gullible people consider those with Merovingian
> > ancestry (which would include everyone on the planet) as descendents of
> > Jesus?
> >
> > Jack Kilmon
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>
>
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