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- From: dweinste@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Rashi's quote (was Re: Almah - Betulah)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:58:32 GMT
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- In article <26JAN199323151295@utkvx2.utk.edu> fnixon@utkvx2.utk.edu (Nixon, John Fred) writes:
- #But you are correct... it doesn't *prove* it one way of the other. All we
- #have is the Septuigint translation, and the tens of thousands of first
- #century Jews who did in fact accept this account, as used by Matthew, that
- #the sign was a virgin would give birth. This would also be in perfect
- #accord with your use of almah. But the conclusion would be... naaah.
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- Tens of thousands of Jews? That means we are talking on the close order
- of .75% of the Jewish population. So, if less than 1% of the Christians
- were to leave Christianity, obviously Christianity would have it wrong?
-
- --Dave
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- Dave Weinstein
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