born of water

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sat Sep 16 16:39:32 EDT 2000


At 04:28 PM 9/16/00 -0400, you wrote:

>In his book under "List of Abbreviations" Edersheim notes that Mass. Ger.
>refers to the book Massecheth Sepher Gerim which I would translate as
>"Tractate Book of Jewish Proselytes."

or perhaps "Tractate Book regarding Resident Aliens" since <heb> ger </heb>
denotes a resident alien (it seems to me "proselyte" is a bit too specific).

best,

jim

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