[Avodah] Biblical text isn't precise record?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:27:49PM +0200, Daniel Eidensohn wrote:
: I have found a number of sources which indicate that prophets - 
: including Moshe - were sometimes not precise in their wording...

In saying what they were trying to day, or describing the history?
The example of the two versions of the diberos, or the IE on quotes
really being paraphrasing fit the idea that the text could paraphrase
history for the sake of making the fundamental point.


Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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