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From: "Bruce R. Magee" <bmagee@garts.latech.edu>
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> Perhaps the rabbis were influenced by an early tax debate in I Kings 12.
> Solomon had died & Rehoboam his son had taken the throne.  The people
> asked for a reduction in their taxes & Solomon's wise old men
> recommended he do so.  He didn't like that advice & turned to his
> buddies, who said to rail at the people & say among other things that,
> "My little finger is thicker than my father's waist" (I Kings 12:10,
> NIV).  Rehoboam listened to his buddies & thereby demonstrated his giant
> ignorance.
>
> BRM
>
> John Lupia wrote:
>
> > --- Alfred M Kriman <akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu>
> > wrote:
> > > Gee, less than three months since last threaded.
> > > E.g.,
> > >
> > >
> > http://164.107.4.25/hyper-lists/classics-l/03-03-01/0278.html
> > >
> > > The pace of list life just keeps accelerating, I
> > > guess.
> > >
> > > AMK
> > >
> >
> > Well Alfred, I did not kmow that, but for me it has
> > been 10 years since I last posted this piece (Ficino
> > at Toronto in 1993), a portion of which I placed on
> > Classics-L. My original post was to :
> >
> > Jeffrey R. Woolf
> > Department of Talmud
> > Bar Ilan University
> > Ramat Gan Israel
> >
> > Jeffrey had asked:
> >
> > In the course of editing a 15th century rabbinic
> > manuscript I've come across an odd expression to
> > express the superiority of les anciens over les
> > nouveaux.  The expression is "their pinky finger is
> > wider than our thighs."  The expression has no
> > parallel in classic rabbinic literature and must be
> > medieval in origin.  Do you have any idea of
> > parallels?
> >
> > Sorry to have vexed you with with this.
> >
> > Shalom,
> > Yohanan
> >
> > =====
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> >
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