Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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pported by the independent authority ofSaint Luke. The sense of the passage requires virgin,which appears in the almost parallel passage, Micah4:8-10. The Greek and Syriac versions of Isaiahboth have the virgin. Saint Matthew, apparently,does not quote from the Greek, from which he dif-fers in detail, but either from the Hebrew of his dayor from an Aramaic Targum. The present Targum,however, agrees with the Masoretic Hebrew, and Jeromefound the same Hebrew text which we now have.Pretty clearly up to about 150 A. D. the Hebrew textread the virgin, which was later changed, at the ex-pense of the sense, to young woman, out of tendenzagainst the use of the passage by Christians.1 In concluding this lecture I wish to say that withthe abolition of the Turkish Government and the intro-duction of British control the great opportunity hascome for a thorough exploration of the country. Al-ready the Palestine Exploration Fund has commenced 1 C/. Peters, The Old Testament and the New Scholarship.
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