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To: GreyFriar

“A major criticism of it was the way the author put all of the Hebrew letters next to each other, without breaks inbetween words or punctuation. And that one could “predict” almost anything based upon doing that arrangement.”

That was how the original Torah was written.


59 posted on 10/30/2012 4:59:21 PM PDT by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: Marie

I’m inclined to call B.S. on that because of all the arguments about the possible variant readings of Old Testament manuscripts, I’ve yet to see one that hinges on word divisions in the Hebrew. Also, modern scrolls that are ceremonially used in worship most definitely contain spaces, as well as the occasional hyphen. It is vowel marks that are absent.


64 posted on 10/30/2012 5:32:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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To: Marie

Also, Hebrew has something like the inverse of capital letters — it has special ending forms for several of its letters.


66 posted on 10/30/2012 5:39:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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To: Marie
Latin was written that way. Greek was written that way. Every written language was written that way.

It was fairly assumed that the folks smart enough to read knew all the written words and could pull them out of the miasmic background easily.

82 posted on 11/02/2012 10:12:09 AM PDT by muawiyah
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