(Ron) The Evolution of Emphasis (was Isaiah 42:8)]]

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> >> JAN

> >> This is one of a significant number of Bible texts that have been

> censored

> >> for pious reasons. It is correct that the Hebrew word in question was

> also

> >> used about navel. However, navels are rarely associated with a

> wine-like

> >> substance, and if we look at the order of the body parts described so

> >> poetically in the Song (feet, thighs, "navel", belly, breasts, neck,

> etc),

> >> another body part comes more easily to mind. The Hebrews were less

> prudish

> >> than many modern Bible translators.

> >>

> >> Not to mention how many problems a more direct translation would

> cause for

> >> those who prefer to write gods and churches into this old piece of

> >> love/marriage poetry. :-)

> >>

> >> - Jan

> >> --

> >>   "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not

> >>   the kind of person I'm preaching to."

> >>           -- ("Bob" of the Church of the Subgenius)

> >

> >

> RON

>   I am with you on this one. I notice that this book is not read in

> Church. It's too hot!!! But you will find, if you study the history of

> Christian (and other forms) of mysticism, that the sex act is often used

> as a metaphor for the unitive experience. All this is not to suggest

> that the clear meaning of the text is to be excluded. God's not down on

> sex. Just sex outside of marriage.

>

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