[b-hebrew] daughters jacob never spoke of
Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com
Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com
Sat Jun 17 15:40:18 EDT 2006
In a message dated 6/17/2006 1:53:39 PM Central Daylight Time,
leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il writes:
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>
> 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.
>
>
Hi Yigal,
I checked the Septuagint and it says, all the sons and the daughters. Plural
sons and daughters.
Rev. Doug Pickrel, Litt.D.
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, Texas
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