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• Subject: Re: wacky XML
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 14 Jan 2004 21:53:42 -0800
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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> writes:

> Note that the oldest extant manuscript to have the 
> word "Elohim" in it is a land transfer deed.
> 
> From: jcowan@r... [mailto:jcowan@r...]
> 
> The text says otherwise: the Tower was destroyed because of God's concern
> that unified mankind might be able to unite imagination and action:
> "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
> (Gen. 11:6)

As long as we're on textual technicalities, the word in the Hebrew
original is "yazam", which means to take initiative or to enterprise,
not imagine.

Ari.

-- 
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betting on the outcome.

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