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    9. RASHI METHOD: SPREADSHEETS
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The common denominator of the 3 submethods of the Spreadsheet method is that inferences are made from non textual material. The 3 submethods are as follows:
    • Spreadsheet: Rashi makes inferences of a numerical nature that can be summarized in a traditional spreadsheet
    • Geometric: Rashi clarifies a Biblical text using descriptions of geometric diagrams
    • Fill-ins: Rashi supplies either real-world background material or indicates real-world inferences from a verse. The emphasis here is on the real-world, non-textual nature of the material.
    This example applies to Rashis Dt11-30b Dt11-30c Dt11-30d Dt11-30e
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1304.htm
    Brief Summary: Mount Gerizim and Mount Ayval are 1) Farther from the Jordan River 2) Westward 3) Roughly horizontal to Gilgal (in the west) 4) Near Schem.

Today Rashi gives a diagrammatic geographic description of the location of Mount Gerizim and Mount Ayval. Since Rashi is diagrammatic we classify this as a NonVerse-Geographic Rashi. We present below the diagrammatic map corresponding to the Rashi comments.

	WEST                              EAST
        |    Israel                        |
        |                                  |
        |                   Mount Ayval    |
        |                    Schem         | Jordan river
        |                    Aylon Moreh   |
        |                                  |
        |                  Mount Gerizim   |
        | Gilgal                           |
        |                                  |

    The following notes explain the various Rashis:
  1. The verse states that the mountains were in the Jordan river bank. As can be seen from the diagram the Mount-Ayval-Schem-Gerizim line are on the same side of Israel as the Jordan river.
  2. The Hebrew word Acharay can mean farther or after. Rashi uses a grammatical argument based on the Biblical cantillations to show it means farther in this verse. As can be seen in the above diagram, Mount Ayval-Schem-Gerizim lie (roughly) on the same longitude, parallel, but farther away from the Jordan river. Hence the verse says the mountains were in the vicinity of the Jordan river, farther westward....
  3. As just indicated the verse explains that after crossing the Jordan river one has to go farther, westward. As can be seen the Ayval-Schem-Gerizim line is farther in a westward direction from the Jordan river.
  4. The Ayval-Schem-Gerizim line on the west side of Israel is opposite but roughly on the same lattitude as Gilgal on the eastern side of Israel. Hence the verse states, Opposite Gilgal.
  5. The verse states that the mountains were near, Aylon Moreh. Rashi uses the reference method to show that Aylon Moreh is in fact Schem. (Gn12-06).
  6. Putting these all together we would translate the verse as follows: Are not these mountains (1) in the vicinity of the Jordan river, (2) after it, (3) westward, 4) opposite Gilgal, 5) Near Aylon Moreh.

In a modern setting location is specified using latitude and longitude. The Bible in fact specifies the latitude determined by Gilgal and Jordan river and specifies the longitude by mentioning Schem. The Bible further clarifies that the mountains are nearer to the Jordan than to Gilgal, not right near but rather farther away.


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