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To: malakhi
Wherever did you acquire such a strange idea?

From my orthodox Jewish roommate, whose Tanakh had no vowels.
186 posted on 11/04/2003 8:42:10 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
From my orthodox Jewish roommate, whose Tanakh had no vowels.

Yes, it has no vowels. But not for the reason you suggest. Your assertion that the purpose was to "make it impossible for anyone to read the Bible without a rabbi" is as false as the Protestant claim that the Catholic church only allowed Latin bibles to "make it impossible for anyone to read the Bible without a priest".

236 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:29 AM PST by malakhi (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.)
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