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- From: levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Almah and the controversy
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 08:27:21 -0600
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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- In article <142118.2B65EEEB@paranet.FIDONET.ORG>
- Harvey Smith writes:
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- > Shalom All. It seems to me that the reasons for not accepting "Almah"
- > as virgin can be listed as the following cf Isa 7:14
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- > 1) Almah does not mean "virgin" but young maiden.
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- It would be more precise to reword as:
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- 1) Almah means "young woman" and does not imply virginity.
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- There were many non-virgin young women in Biblical times - they were married.
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