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- From: I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau)
- Subject: Re: How much should we read?
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- Organization: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
- References: <1993Jan22.034815.19776@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1993Jan22.072738.20808@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan22.183025.3995@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1993Jan22.200438.6715@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:59:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.200438.6715@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
-
- >
- >It would be trivial to post to soc.culture.jewish and ask how Jews read these
- >passages. (But remember that in this context, saying "you're stretching it"
- >and "that's a silly interpretation" are not responses, since the question is
- >whether the Jewish interpretation is barbaric, not whether it's wrong or
- >right.)
- >--
-
- Ho hum. You mean one of the interpretations offered. The person who posted
- failed to remind that Common Law usually changes the contents of a law
- a lot in the span of five hundred years. And what he futher failed to
- report is that the interpretation he represented is just one tradition
- of many, but one that has survived.
-
- As a matter of fact, I doubt that anything but the literal interpretation
- was meant at the time Deuteronomium was written. It is concise in its
- language, and if you want to have an impression how simple words can
- be bent beyond meaning by legal tradition, have a look at the comments
- to any codified law. They grow with time, but they have not been there in
- the first place.
-
- And even then, a death penalty under the refined circumstances of the
- 'enlightened' interpretation is disgusting.
- Benedikt
-