Tory:
You are guilty of pushing a particular reading for what historically
have been ideological reasons.
It is my understanding that there was no problem among Jews with the
understanding of (LMH meaning "virgin" until after the Christian claim
that Jesus was born of such. The belief that Messiah would be born of
a virgin continued among some Jews as late as the 1400s AD (mentioned
in Rafael Patai "The Messiah Texts", I'm citing from memory having
read the book decades ago
The reasons that I and many others claim that (LMH means "virgin" are
both linguistic and ideological:
The claim that Mariam the mother of Jesus was a virgin at the time she
got pregnant and gave birth.
By prior agreement, we are enjoined from pushing the ideologic reasons
(the only reason I mention them above is to admit that they exist and
that they are not linguistic), but we can mention the linguistic
reasons which, contrary to your claims, is not "pushing our ideology".
For you to deny that the linguistic reasons exist can only be
understood as pushing your ideology,
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