To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:29:12 +0100
Harold R. Holmyard III <hholmyard AT ont.com> wrote on 05-02-2001 13:25:
>> Just difficult to find the right word at the time. I'll accept anything
>> that
>> is better. "Nationality" didn't seem to be the right word, especially when
>> one thinks of the Diaspora. So, if Jonathan Safren feels he can supply a
>> better word for the *context*, he will be most welcome.
>
> The word "ethnic" may be a better term.
I do not agree, because there is an important religious factor in it too. So
why not just refering to someone as being Jewish, as a Jew, or his
Jewishness?
Racial and ethnic have too much negative soundings with regard to the past
of the Jewish people.