[safisoft]

Internally consistent interpretation demands accepting my view of these passages. To do otherwise is to make a farce out of God's Word.

Now there is a singing self-endorsement if ever there was one.

Maybe you have not read the writings of ancient natural Hebrew speakers?

Seminarians crack me up sometimes. I'll take one Jewish sage of the Talmud to a hundred Hebrew professors from a 'Christian' seminary any day. Funny how folks never questioned the Hebrew of the B'reshit account prior to the 19th Century, eh? Wonder why. Are you working backwards? Or maybe right to left. ;)

BTW, since there is no dagesh, shouldn't it be shuvi? It's easy, practive with me: Avvvraham Avvvinu. Just joking.

[shubi]

While I have had six years of Seminary, I learned Hebrew in a federal government spy school.

I don't need to work with vowel points. In fact, I find it to be restricting, since it tends to interpret the Bible in a Masorite fashion.

I find the wisdom of the Jewish sages to valuable, myself.