<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> There is no mention in any of these cases of a conversion occuring first.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Without TSBP, there is no reason to insert this step, and with repeated</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> omission, slight reason to believe it didn't happen. It's not a circular</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> argument, it's an attempt at proof from absence. Particularly since the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> omitted bit is important.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I disagree. We don't need TSBP to tell us that people relieved themselves</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">or ate carrots.>></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eating carrots is irrelevant to the story. When tanach tells us the sins of Shlomo's wives it is very relevant whether they converted or not and perhaps if their conversion was ineffective.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This is especially true for the lineage of Rechovam.</span></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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