[b-hebrew] daughters jacob never spoke of
Yigal Levin
leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il
Sat Jun 17 15:53:01 EDT 2006
Dear Anna,
I'm not surprised, since I am familiar with this midrash. It is based on two
things: the mention of "all of Jacob's sons and daughters" who tried to
comfort him in Gen. 37:35, and the assumption that Jacob, who went all the
way to Haran to find his wife(s), would not have allowed his sons to marry
Canaanite women.
Such midrashim were "invented" by the rabbis for didactic purposes, and were
not meant to be taken as "historical fact". That later commentators did just
that, is a problem that Jewish educators have to deal with.
What I am surprised at, is that anyone takes the website that you got the
story from seriously. To me, it looks like a garbled mix of mostly nonsense.
Please don't let it be your introduction to Judaism, if that's what you're
looking for.
Yigal
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Subject: [b-hebrew] daughters jacob never spoke of
> .
> .
> j anna .... i wonder if mailing-list-members are as surprised on
> details
> re the fourteen daughters of jacob as I am. Material found on a number
> of
> sites such
> as _http://www.jewishgates.com/file.asp?File_ID=1309_
> (http://www.jewishgates.com/file.asp?File_ID=1309) and
> _http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t07/t0717.htm_
> (http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t07/t0717.htm)
>
>
>>From these web-pages, i gather that the 14 women {does that include dinah
> ??} espoused their half-brothers -- we already knew of dinah's second
> husband
> being her brother simon.
>
>
>>From these web pages, it looks as though the 14 were born as twins to
> various of the 12 brothers. And looks as though benjamin was born in a
> set of
> triplets.
> `
> `
> j. anna
>
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