Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!arens@UCBKIM From: arens%UCBKIM@ucbvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: id AA02359; 24 Jun 83 16:09:51 PDT (Fri) Message-ID: <414@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 19:11:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.414 Posted: Fri Jun 24 19:11:17 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jun-83 12:36:46 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.UUCP Organization: U. C. Berkeley Computer Science Lines: 24 Date: 23 Jun 83 17:08:10 PDT (Thu) From: arens@UCBKIM (Yigal Arens) Subject: Re: Biblical literalness Message-Id: <8306240008.4611@UCBKIM.ARPA> Received: by UCBKIM.ARPA (3.340/3.5) id AA04611; 23 Jun 83 17:08:10 PDT (Thu) To: net-religion@BERKELEY In-Reply-To: Message from ucbmonet!arnold from June 20, 1983. I would like to add something that is probably not known to most people who read an English translation of the old testament and think that it is a correct one: There are approximately 8000 different Hebrew words (including noun-stems and verb-stems) used in the text of the old testament. Of these, A FULL ONE THIRD APPEAR EXACTLY ONCE. There are some obvious problems in trying to figure out what a lot of it really means. Yigal Arens UC Berkeley (soon USC)