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  • From: Brian Roberts <formoria AT carolina.rr.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Genesis 32:32
  • Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:17:02 -0500

Dear listmembers;


Genesis 32:24-32 tells the odd little story of Jacob wrestling with God(?), and the last verse contains a reference, which, in English, is translated in various ways, among them "Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank."

What is the consensus about the original Hebrew meaning of this? Some have expressed the possibility (again, based on one English translation) that it may reference a prohibition against cannibalism. I didn't have a ready answer for them, not being a Hebrew scholar.


Best Salaams,

R. Brian Roberts
Amateur Researcher in Biblical Archaeology





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