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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">I got a laugh from
Larry's responses:<br>
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From
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...Dr. Steven Bayme, who has emerged recently as the primary
spokesman for PORAT...validates Biblical Criticism even when it
negates parts of the Torah.... Snippet:<br>
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''Did Moses actually write that Abraham pursued his foes until
'Dan' in order to rescue Lot (Gen. 14:14), or was the place name a
later editorial insert to indicate what by then had become a
well-known locale? Were there two “Yairs” who each happened to
have conquered 30 villages in the Bashan 200 years apart (Deut.
3:14; Judg. 10:3-4) or was this but one incident occurring later
but inserted retrospectively into the Book of Numbers as a
subsequent epilogue of the war with Bashan?''<br>
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larry rothenberg<br>
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April 5, 2016 at 5:30 pm<br>
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Steve Bayme, 3000 years from now – ''Were there really two
presidents named Bush, a father and son, who both went to war with
an Iraqi dictator named Saddam Hussein? or was this but one
incident occurring later but added retrospectively into American
history textbooks as a subsequent epilogue of the war with Iraq?''<br>
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Naftali<br>
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April 5, 2016 at 12:48 pm<br>
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In the offending ''snippet'' all Dr Bayme does is raise questions.
Is the mere asking of questions now considered unOrthodox? in
which case, what does an Orthodox Seder look like?<br>
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larry<br>
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April 5, 2016 at 3:46 pm<br>
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The answer depends on whether you are a chacham or a rasha.<br>
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