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Re: The Brick Testament: Samson and Delilah
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Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:26:58 GMT
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   Anyway, I was reading through some of the other stories, and I wonder if you can answer this question. This is more a question of the actual bible... why is it that sometimes bible stories seem to have absolutley arbitrary points thrown in?

Felix

I think that a lot of the old testament is probably collected from the notes of the rabbis of various tribes. And those people probably acted like a combination spiritual guide/general scribe of their tribes. So what we see is a combination of their spiritual works and their general bookkeeping.

That said I’m no biblical or rabbinical scholar...

Tim



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  Re: The Brick Testament: Samson and Delilah
 
Tim and Felix, Can you please move such non-Lego discussions out of the .build group? Thanks, Clark (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Outstanding, as usual. I like the philistine minifigs. It seems like every time you do a new story I think you'll be out of ways to portray different cultures. But you always do it great. Anyway, I was reading through some of the other (...) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)

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