>>>>>>> But my question isn't regarding his commentary   
   >>>>>>> though, it's regarding the translation of   
   >>>>>>> "Ravens." Nearly everyone readily admits that   
   >>>>>>> it's an uneasy fit, this "unclean" animal is   
   >>>>>>> actually denounced as an "Abomination" in   
   >>>>>>> modern translations of Leviticus,   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> They are not denounced as an abomination in Leviticus, what it states is   
   >>>>> that they are unclean so they are not kosher to eat.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Hmmm... unclean...   
   >>>   
   >>>Camels, horses, and dogs are unclean, they are not considered abominations.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In the bible, unlike   
   >>>>> today in literature the raven is quite favorably viewed.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Unclean" is favorable?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No. I stand with those who note that it makes far more   
   >>>> sense to read it as "Arabs" instead of "Ravens."   
   >>>   
   >>>Genesis 8:7   
   >>>To test whether the water subsided, Noah released a raven   
   >>>   
   >>>"and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the   
   >>>earth."   
   >>>   
   >>>does not sound like an Arab to me could do this, what did he have a long   
   >>>range helicopter.   
   >>   
   >> One fact refutes this "arab" theory, the languages had not yet seperated at   
   >> the babel event in Genesus.   
   >   
   >Arabs during the flood makes not sense to the Biblical writer.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "Arab" is a language, the Abraham event thought to indicate the start of   
   >> what were to become "arabs" as residents of arabia had yet to happen also.   
   >   
   >I would go further to the biblical writer, I am not sure what we call Arabs   
   >are descendants of Ishmael for one point they are in the wrong area.   
      
   In the bible araibia is what we now know as s. Syria and iraq.  For   
   example, after his baptism Paul went to arabia,ie. iraq.   
      
   The first known texts in early arabic are found in those areas some 800   
   years BC.   
      
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