Re: [asa] On Job

While I can't vouch for the truth of the claim, I recall reading an
Armenian's (Lamsa ?) statement that "pillar of salt" was their phrase for
"becoming sterile." Assuming the claim to be true does not demonstrate
that the phrase was used in remote antiquity in this sense. But it does
suggest that understanding the text may well involve more than chemistry,
physics, meteorology, and whatever else of contemporary understanding we
bring to it.
Dave

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:30:51 -0700 "Don Winterstein"
<dfwinterstein@msn.com> writes:
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Whether or not the book is history, what should we take literally?
That's the question. The later chapters of Genesis clearly seem to be
history, but who among us can take the reported fate of Lot's wife as
fact? Do we believe God would go to the trouble of transmuting all the
elements of her body just because of an inappropriate glance? Not I.
What would be the point, other than generating a memorable Sunday school
story forever after? This story is readily explained by elaborations on
subsequent observations of a salt feature in the Dead Sea area.
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