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   From: odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca   
      
   In article   
   <0895827c-403c-438e-8897-534718d28291@r3g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,   
    Yusuf B Gursey  wrote:   
      
   > On Jul 11, 2:23 pm, SolomonW  wrote:   
      
    > It is not just authors abut editors afterwards. One point of the bible is   
   > > that it was written for a time when words were expensive to record. So   
   > > everything was shortened to make it less to write. Everything has to have a   
   > > reason for being there; it is it there it is because it is needed, for some   
   > > reason.   
   >   
   > that's untrue, as the Hebrew language of the Bible contains elementsof   
   > rhetoric to make it sound more bombastic, so what could be expressed   
   > simply in a straightforward manner is done with lot's of detail and   
   > embellishments.   
      
   Not to mention, IIRC, some rather tedious reiterations of laws and   
   genealogies.   
      
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