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- From: jlove@ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu (Jack Love)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Almah in Isa 7:14
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:26:23 GMT
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- In article <LJMORLY.93Jan6134759@polaris.utu.fi> ljmorly@polaris.utu.fi (Laura Johanna Manninen) writes:
- >Thus the era we are living in determines what is the truth, right ?
-
- I think this is a rather weak attempt to engage me in the relativist
- versus absolutist controversy. Sorry, I abstain. I stand by my point
- which is that modern scholarship has the capacity for casting
- additional and new light on ancient sources. In some cases this
- comes from new disciplines and technologies. In some cases it comes
- from simple "spade" work such as archaeology.
-
- >Who cares ? People who trust Rabbis' advice and are blind to see their
- >motives in these kind of issues can be lead astray.
-
- This sounds like some sort of mystical mumbo jumbo or coded
- language to me.
-
- >It dinna v'it dayanna. First of all, Harvey is a scholar
-
- By whose definition?
-
- > which refutes
- >your "consensus of all modern scholarship".
-
- Hardly, we've already agreed that Harvey belongs to some period
- of medieval "scholarship." You shoudn't mind that since you
- evidently think that all scholarship is the same.
-
- > Second, the fact the 'almah'
- >means 'virgin' has been proven here on AM. You can tell that to those
- >beloved scholars of yours.
-
- Nothing of the sort has been proven. It has been asserted. The
- alleged proof is worthless.
-
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- Jack F. Love | Opinions expressed are mine alone.
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