James Christian:
Although I already answered both of your questions, I will answer them
again, this time making the answers simpler.
1. You wrote: “1) When do you see a boy becoming a man? Stating things
like 'In the ancient world ... blah, blah, blah' is not an answer unless you
are
willing to provide some evidence in some form. If your only evidence
is how they support your conclusions then this is called 'circular
reasoning' and is unlikely to convince me.”
The Jewish custom of a Bar Mitzvah at age 13 indicates that in the ancient
and medieval worlds, the approximate time at which a boy became a man was
age 13.
Likewise, the fact that most females in the ancient world bore their
first child by age 15, and that age 13 was commonplace for a female to bear
her first child, indicates that a girl became a woman in the ancient world
at approximately the same time as a boy became a man.
2. You wrote: “2) How does the Quran's importance of the number 19
support you claims when there is no indication of whether their tradition refers
to 6
month years or 12 month years? Restating your interpretation and
embellishing me with further details of further conjectural
interpretations of similar style is not what I consider evidence. It
is just conjecture heaped on conjecture. Are you actually going to
offer any evidence in the near future or just keep embellishing
further conjectural ideas?”
It is an objective fact that the number 19 has outsized importance in the
Koran, and is viewed positively in the Koran. The most likely explanation
for that numerical fact is that the Koran correctly ascertained that in terms
of the 6-month “years” that are used to set forth everyone’s ages in the
Patriarchal narratives, Ishmael was age 19 “years” when he was exiled by his
father Abraham. (That is age 9½ in regular, 12-month years.) Thus the num
ber 19 symbolizes the birth of the Arabs, who later became Muslims. It was
when Ishmael was age 19 “years” in the Patriarchal narratives that Ishmael
is portrayed in the text as separating from the Abraham-Isaac line. That is
the explanation for the otherwise mysterious sura 74: 30 in the Koran:
"Over it is 19." The number 19 symbolizes Ishmael, the birth of the Arabs, and
the birth of Islam.
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