# Anybody interested in a SDMB weekly Bible study?

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**Created:** [July 24, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-interested-in-a-sdmb-weekly-bible-study/664376 "2013-07-24T12:59:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-interested-in-a-sdmb-weekly-bible-study/664376/37 "2013-07-25T00:35:08Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> I thought Jews considered you an adult after the bar/bat mitzvah. That happens at age 12 or 13, not especially advanced. Where did you get that idea from?

There are two milestones of which I’m aware: the Bar Mitzvah which you mention (did this exist in Elisha’s time?), but then also the age of 30, when a Jewish male could assume the mantle of his father’s household.  
In either case, these weren’t “children” as we think of them; these were likely late teens or young adults.

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