Re : Digest Number 733

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Hello !

 

I'm sorry but I don't understand your point.

 

Any way, I give you my point of view on that matter.

 

The word Elohim (which is a plural in its form) is one of the names of God

in the Bible.

Even if the form is that of a plural, it is in general used with a verb in

the singular form.

 

But perhaps your point was different from what I understood. Most of the

Bible versions I have are translations into French.

 

Sincerely.

 

Jean-François

 

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>De : Rainbolily

>À : advaitin

>Objet : Re: Digest Number 733

>Date : Dim 8 oct 2000 13:46

>

> In a message dated 10/08/2000 4:20:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> advaitin writes:

>

> <<

> Do you have examples of American textbooks that have incorrect/wrong

> information about your in them? If so, could you tell me the names of those

> books? Thanks...

> >>

> Dear Betsy,

>

> You could honestly begin directly with the Bible. For example, the

> first word of the bible, Elohim (also used in Judaism as ELOHIM

> GIBOR) is translated from the original Aramaic as "There were Light

> Beings." Or, "There were Beings of Light." Not, as bibles say, "In

> the beginning there was light." There are some beautiful books

> on this on Amazon, hopefully Vanderbilt U's library would have

> extensive material, but who knows.

>

> On the question re Sanskrit and English, yes, I would love to continue

> to see both. My Sanskrit is nonexistent, it takes some getting used to

> for me, even though I am normally fairly fluent and easy to pick up

> languages, I find Sanskrit not easy, I do love to have my tongue roll

> around the sounds though, and words have power, as I am sure you

> all already know.

>

> Much L*L*L

> ~ rainbo ~

> or Anna Maria van der Zon

>

>

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