So the "ü" comes from English then? Well, live and learn. In German, it's "ur".\
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not trying to pedantic here, I'm just trying to save someone from having to type that pesky "ü" on an English keyboard.
So the "ü" comes from English then? Well, live and learn. In German, it's "ur".\
Thanks. Not sure where I picked up the umlat on that (I saw it somewhere ... perhaps my coffee). I'm not native German. I just know how to speak it a bit from my grandmother's family and my high school German taken four decades ago. (I can mostly read a newspaper, but higher works requires a dictionary on hand)
BTW I would have posted this earlier but I was on my private jet coming back from Dubai. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!"Sorry for the delay. I tied up completing the German to English translation of Dr. Detering's "Die gnostische Deutung des Exodus und die Anfänge des Josua/Jesus-Kultes" (The Gnostic Interpretation and Exegesis of Exodus). It's off getting reviewed now --- I have a bonus English only section covering 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 which Dr. Detering and I have had some back and forth ..." viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3962&p=84069&hilit= ... ish#p84069
It appears to have been only one though (who is unnamed), and his opinion was rejected:Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 9:43 am If the Jews could accept Job as a fiction Job lo haya v'lo nivra ela mashal haya (Baba Bathra 15.1) no reason to be sure John was historical.
A certain Rabbi was sitting before R. Samuel b. Nahmani and in the course of his expositions remarked, Job never was and never existed, but is only a typical figure. He replied: To confute such as you the text says, There was a man in the land of Uz, Job was his name. But, he retorted, if that is so, what of the verse, The poor man had nothing save one poor ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up etc. Is that anything but a parable? So this too is a parable. If so, said the other, why are his name and the name of his town mentioned?
http://www.come-and-hear.com/bababathra ... ra_15.html
Read the Apocalypse Of Elijah. It has the following interesting quote;Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 7:53 am I still don't think John the Baptist is a historical figure but apparently I have more to read. What else is new
What does a historical John the Baptist have to do with literature anyway?Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 9:43 am If the Jews could accept Job as a fiction Job lo haya v'lo nivra ela mashal haya (Baba Bathra 15.1) no reason to be sure John was historical.