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   From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:26:47 -0600, Odysseus wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   This tends to relate to separate books in the bible.   
      
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