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From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@jtauber.com>
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To: johnhall@evergo.net, fork@spamassassin.taint.org
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 16:50:54 UT
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:07:00 -0700, "John Hall" <johnhall@evergo.net>
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said:
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> Ran across a site which claimed to explain the original meaning of the
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> Ten Commandments. It seems some of those meanings have evolved a bit,
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> too.
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By "meanings have evolved" do you [or they] mean that the Hebrew words
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have changed meaning or that our understanding of the Hebrew words have
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changed? Or do they posit a pre-Mosaic form of the laws that had
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evolved by time of the Pentateuch?
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> In particular, there was a claim that the commandment on stealing was
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> actually specifically about 'man stealing -- selling a free man into
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> slavery.
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This seems bogus to me. A quick check of the text indicates the the
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Hebrew word in question is GANAV which elsewhere in the Pentateuch (eg
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Gen 44.8) is used to mean steal silver and gold amongst other things.
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In July 1999, I made the following comment in response to a similar
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claim about the "real" meaning of one of the ten commandments:
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"""
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> The translations since cause problems at each successive remove
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We have the original language versions, though, so this is not an
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issue.
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> I'm sure most everyone is familiar with the argument that the meaning of the commandment
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> is 'thou shalt not murder' rather than 'kill,'
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This has nothing to do with successive translations. It is based on our
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knowledge of the meaning of the Hebrew word "ratsach". Most modern
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translations I've seen translate it "murder" but elsewhere the word is
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used
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of an animal killing a human (something for which most English speakers
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wouldn't use the word "murder").
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"""
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- http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/july99/0163.html
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James
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--
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James Tauber
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jtauber@jtauber.com
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