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[edit] Where should Christian usage of Pardes be included?

For instance: God was so intimately involved in history that:

• a town was named Timnath (the appointment) (Remez)
• a law was given requiring that a brother give his deceased brother and heir (Remez)
• a daughter-in-law lost two husbands without an heir (Remez)
• a father-in-law denied her his third son the daughter-in-law played the harlot to her father-in-law (Remez)
• she was promised a goat (Remez)
• she asked for assurance (Remez) for the goat
• she was given three (Remez) items as an assurance: rod (Remez, signet ring (Remez, bracelet (Remez
• she had twins (Remez)
• their names mean "breaking forth" and "the sunrise" (Remez)

God was so involved in the life of the author that the author recorded this odd transaction without really knowing why it was important. But God used the history, and the author, to paint a picture of the birth of His own Son (sod) such that:

• Tamar:Mary made herself available at Timnath:the appointment (Drash)
• Tamar:Mary was promised a goat:scape goat "for he shall save his people from their sins." (Drash)
• When Tamar:Mary asked for assurance of the promise, she was given three things: (Drash)
• Rod: "The power of God will overshadow you"…" (Drash)
• Signet ring: "He shall be called the Son of God" (Drash)
• Bracelets: Do not be afraid to take Mary your wife (in Numbers an empty vessel without bracelets is unclean. Mary was not unclean, and Judah was told "there was no prostitute here" (Drash)
• Tamar:Mary conceived , not by her legitimate husband, but by his father Judah:God (Drash)
• Tamar:Mary was going to be killed:divorced until the father was identified. Afterwards she was honored. (Drash)
• Tamar:Mary had twins: God-man (Drash)
• their names mean "breaking forth" and "the sunrise" ::dayspring (Drash)
• Phares:Jesus though born to Tamar:Mary first, was really the second breach:second man (Drash)

God was so involved in the history and lives of the people and authors that the human scribes were almost typewriters incarnate, and God left his fingerprints throughout his word with such shadows as the story of Tamar. The inspiration of the scriptures goes well beyond our conception of it. Every jot and tittle had real history behind the living, observation and recording of it. Every paragraph had God's hand on the whole of the author's life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BobCJones (talk • contribs) 11:08, August 4, 2007

Hi Bob. There are two issues here. The first is whether there is an established system of Christian exegesis called Pardes. If not, there shouldn't be a Wikipedia article about it, no matter how similar Christian exegesis may seem to the Jewish exegesis system called Pardes.

If reliable sources attest to the existence of such a system and the use of the name "Pardes" to describe it, you have several choices: you can create a new article Pardes (Christian exegesis), you can rename this article Pardes (exegesis) and create sections on Jewish and Christian exegesis; there may be other options as well.

If the use of the word "Pardes" to describe a system of Christian exegesis that is similar to the Jewish exegesis system called Pardes is your own innovation, the term doesn't belong in Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms.

Please note that the system of Christian exegesis may be sufficiently significant that it belongs in Wikipedia; it is the use of the word "Pardes" to describe it that I am discussing here. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 02:30, 7 August 2007 (UTC)