From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 21:47:19 EDT
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From: "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net>
To: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
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Subject: Re: RATE
> Commentaries on Gen. 10:25 point out that "Peleg" in Hebrew is based on a
> verbal root that means "to split" or "to divide." So the name is another
of
> those plays on meaning the writers of Genesis were so fond of. Some
> commentators see the name as carrying out a prophetic function,
anticipating
> the "splitting" or "dividing" action that is next described. The division
> of "eretz" (not necessarily the entire earth) has been interpreted by some
> rabbinical commentaries as a reference to the scattering of peoples from
the
> Tower of Babel. Given the presentce of earthquakes in the region, it may
> possibly refer to such an event. I think going beyond such a physical
event
> such as some proposed (like the splitting of Pangaea) would be a most
> extravagant eisegesis.
>
> My main quarrel with YECs is their propensity to read into the texts of
> Scripture whatever they wish to find there.
>
> Bob Schneider
>
> > >
Jay Willingham writes:
True perhaps.
Extravagant certainty describes macro-evolution to me as well.
I am so pleased to learn my extravagance was also rabbinical. As Christians
are wild olive shoots grafted into the root of Israel, I also find it
comforting.
Jay Willingham
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