:8737268 I haven't talked to @JackDouglas and @Caleb yet, but I'm ok with just implementing it as is. (For the sake of the meta question, I think deleting my "accepted" answer makes sense.)
@MonicaCellio Hmmm.. The OP hasn't been here since October and has participated on C.SE, so I'd guess they are thinking narrowing about the Christian messianic age. This strikes me as an underspecified question that we should consider closing as NARQ.
@StackExchange Thanks for asking. I'm not sure what to think, but that paragraph is just one of the problems with that answer. I wouldn't have bothered with the edit, if it were me.
I find it odd that my question pointed out that the idea that Jephthah's daughter was spared is a rabbinical tradition. But this answer implies that the opposite is the case. I can't see how a straight reading of that passage would allow her to escape. Only by crediting Jephthah with more sense than he deserves can you find that he did not sacrifice her.
I don't have my Bible with me at the moment, so I can't quote, but the interactions between Tamar and Judah indicate, and perhaps provide a categorical example of, the mode of intersexual interaction in Genesis. Prevalent therein is the underhanded method by which many female figures in Genesis e...
@MonicaCellio I found some rabbinic discussion on whether or not Torah existed before creation, but nothing stating it existed before God.
Or was more powerful than He.
Honestly, I think "did it exist before creation" would be a neat discussion to be part of as philosophical and torah related arguments could be wielded by either side. Then again, does not Bereshith Rabbah warn us to not question what happened before "Beginning"? I think that's where I saw the warning.
