Re: Ioudaios: Re: Second Temple Ark of the Covenant?

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Subject: Re: Ioudaios: Re: Second Temple Ark of the Covenant?
inmanvk@sas.upenn.edu
Date: Tue Feb 20 2007 - 11:51:59 EST


Why must your replies insult?

Quoting Dierk van den Berg <hagalil@gmx.net>:

pure reciting of learned things is the
> clear privilege of undergraduates and mercantile parrots.

If only more undergraduates could master the art!

> However, the Talmud (B or J) is just an welcome additional source, but by no
> means the primary one for our understanding of 1st c. CE matters.

Nor did I say so. Rabbinics encompasses much more than the Talmud.

> what is true for the early Rabbis is likewise true for the EC Fathers - they
> speak with many tongues, partly even a split one.

How can you say this? When you reverse the syllogism you make a statement about
the Rabbis I would never make! What is the point of this statement?

> kullu nafsin dsa 'iqatu l-mawt (surah 3.185)
> *all living is pervaded by the taste of death*
> [Momentum of Shiite al-Mahdi Messianism]
>
And again, what is the point?
>
V. K. Inman
>
>


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