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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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27; see also <strong>the</strong> Targum on that verse). Comp.<br />

Eeth. 7 b <strong>and</strong> Sotah SO b (last line) <strong>and</strong> 31 a,<br />

though <strong>the</strong> coarse legendary explanation <strong>of</strong> R.<br />

Tanchmna mars <strong>the</strong> poetic beauty <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole.<br />

* <strong>The</strong> poetic gr<strong>and</strong>eur <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Old Testament cast<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Virgin's hymn (oomp. <strong>the</strong> Song <strong>of</strong> Hannah, 1<br />

Sam. ii. 1-10), need scarcely be pointed out.<br />

Perhi^Mi it would read fullest <strong>and</strong> best by trying to<br />

recall what must have been its Hebrew original.<br />

' Weiss, while denying <strong>the</strong> historical accmacy <strong>of</strong><br />

much in <strong>the</strong> Gk>spel-narratiye<br />

<strong>of</strong> it, unhesitatingly accepts <strong>the</strong> fact <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

supernatural birth <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />

' Eeim elaborately discusses <strong>the</strong> origin <strong>of</strong> what he<br />

calls <strong>the</strong> legend <strong>of</strong> Christ's supernatural<br />

conception. He arrives at <strong>the</strong> conclusion that it was<br />

a Jewish-Christian legend—as if a Jemtk invention<br />

<strong>of</strong> such a ' legend' were not tlic most unlikely <strong>of</strong> all<br />

possible hypo<strong>the</strong>ses 1 But negative criticism is at

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