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Steven Carr · 06-06-2002, 12:21 AM

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Originally posted by King Arthur:
<strong>In case anybody cares, I checked up on one of Haran's other scholars, Kaiser.

Kaiser, in a book called Toward Old Testament Ethics (i think), really does address the Hebrew 'qatan' where Daniel Wallace did not. In this book, he gave a couple of references where 'naar qatan' (or 'small boy') is used of young men around the age of 20! The references were, 1 Kings 3:7 (Solomon) and 1 Kings 11:17 (Hadad), if anyone is still interested.

Kaiser, quoting yet another scholar, also mentioned the deal about the "South Arabic" word being used to understand the Hebrew of 'small boys' better as 'ruffians'.

Man, I think Haran got unfairly slammed. His stuff checks out. Hope he decides to come back sometime.</strong>

I can give you lots of scholarly references where 'ausrotten' was used by Nazis in the context of physically transporting something.

Perhaps when Nazi leaders talked about the 'ausrotten' of the Jews, by Haran's and your logic , they just meant transporting them out of the Third Reich?

After all, if we come across a meaning of a word in a metaphorical sense (as you do when talking about 1 Kings 3), by your logic, I can use that meaning whenever I want to rewrite history to avoid the implications of wholesale slaughter (such as ripping 42 boys to pieces). After all, if Biblical apologists can use that logic, why not Holocaust deniers?

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