From: Deborah Millier <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com>
To: hebrew listserve <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] God vs angels in Ps 8:5
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:27:18 -0800 (PST)
Ben Crick wrote:
> I was trying to leave aside the NT
> interpretation, and stay with Psalm
> 8:5 "as is".
Oh come now Revd Crick, is it possible to leave MT Psa
8:5 as is? Or even desirable? Then what have you
got?
To arrive at *meaning* for a biblical text,
interpretation must be employed, right? People have
gone to other HB passages . . . even books to shed
light on MT Psa 8:5.
And a Jew might draw from usage, quotes, and/or
allusions to said passage in the Mishnah, Midrashim,
Targumim, Rashi, etc. Correct? He/she might even dip
into the NT along the way for its say on a texts
history of interpretation.
How much more Christians!
I understand that you are trying to sensitively avoid
pushing Christian beliefs on a biblical Hebrew forum
open to members of various communities. But where the
NT touches on a topic germane to Hebrew, why take the
long way around? NT evidence is at least that:
evidence.
--Michael Millier
Manila, Philippines
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