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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Genesis 1 & 2 (trying again)
  • Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 23:24:02 -0500


In answer to each question below, why not both of them? Surely you
have learned from your history that history often repeats itself, that
children don't learn lessons from their fathers. Indeed, maybe that
was precisely the point which the compiler of Genesis was making in
including these repeated accounts. Or are you claiming that the
compiler of that great work of literature Genesis was such an idiot
that he included three copies of the same story by mistake, inserting
different sets of names by accident?

OK, only one person could have killed any one Goliath, but given our
limited knowledge of Philistine personal names there could have been
very many Goliaths in Gath. Anyway, the text of 2 Sam 21:19 is clearly
corrupt. 1 Chr 20:5 could well be a better text though it could also
be a later correction.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Genesis 1 & 2 (trying again)
Author: <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date: 01/12/1999 11:16

<snip>

.. Who killed Goliath, David or Elhanan? (Look at how Chr obscured the
problem by making Elhanan kill Goliath's brother!) Who was the king who the
patriarch tricked into thinking his wife was his sister, pharaoh or
Abimelek? Who was the patriarch, Abraham or Isaac?

<snip>





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