1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang May 2000
2 55 10_Lot's wife11_Cohen, Izzy18_Izzy_Cohen@bmc.com31_Sun, 28 May 2000 01:25:27 -0500407_ISO-8859-1 Frantz wrote: > I found this very interesting, specially the note > on the ancient script. But I find interpreting the > Bible by reading Hebrew backwards to be very poor > exegesis, just like the so called Bible Codes.
This particular instance does *not* require "reading Hebrew backwards". It only requires the biblical usage of a euphemistic idiom: "pillar of salt" = "paralysis". [...]