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  • From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
  • To: "'Stephen C. Carlson'" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>
  • Cc: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Re[2]: SV: Gilgamesh (Jonathan)
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:19:12 +0100




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen C. Carlson [SMTP:scarlson AT mindspring.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 20 January, 2000 03:35
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: SV: Gilgamesh (Jonathan)
>
> At 12:52 AM 1/20/00 -0500, Peter Kirk wrote:
> >Jonathan, you don't need to use that tone. You have failed to deal
> >with Ian's point (which he may have got from me) that Genesis 11:31
> >indicates that Haran is a long way from Ur Kasdim, not just that both
> >are a long way from Canaan.
>
> I've looked at Gen. 11:31 several times tonight, and I can't find
> any indication that Haran is a long way from Ur Kasdim. It merely
> says that Abraham left Ur Kasdim to go to Canaan, but stopped in
> Haran (which is actually on the way in the northern scenario). How
> do you understand the verse?
>
> Stephen Carlson
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