Re: [asa] Re: Are there guidelines for accommodational interpretation?

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> David ,
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> Can you give examples of Calvin saying Mosaic laws were accommodations
> please?
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> I'd have to get the commentary out of the box at home (protecting it from
limited but improving page handling skills of a toddler) and find the verse,
but a specific example I know of relates to the regulations on dealing with
slaves that would allow separating a family. Calvin strongly disapproves of
this dissolution of marriage.

>PS Ammonites are mentioned in the Old Testament, so what about clams?
Pearls get some mention. I'm thinking about naming a new genus of pigtoe
clam Porcinaias so as to put the pearl after the swine.

There's speculation that one of the obscure types of cloth mentioned could
be the golden cloth made from Pinna nobilis byssal threads. Astarte is a
bivalve genus (goes back to one of Linnaeus's off-color anatomical
references), and you can probably guess that the snails "Clavilithes"
sampsoni and Strombus goliath are not diminuitive. [Quotes reflect the fact
that I suspect it's not all that close to true Clavilithes]. Purple from
snails and possible use of snail opercula in incense would add some more
mollusk references, but there's some question about the translation for the
one explicit mention of mollusks in the KJV (about a snail melting away).

The Mount of Olives features exceptionally preserved Cretaceous mollusks,
but the Biblical authors seem seriously negligent in discussing them.
I suppose one can also find predation by giant flightless New Zealand birds
in the OT with the Moa-bites, and AIG will like the evidence for giant
reptiles coexisting with humans in the mentions of Nabucodonosor (as one
translation renders his name). However, I think this reply is starting to
babble on.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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