Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ruthy & Baruch" <alster AT comandcom.com>]

George Athas wrote:

> Yet, compare Josh 6:25 which states that Rahab the whore lived in Israel
`ad hayyom
> hazzeh. Does this mean that Joshua was written within a generation of
Jericho's
> destruction (if we can at all talk of that)? Or are we saying that an
oral tradition goes
> back to that generation?

 Abravanel, interestingly enough, does not comment on this instance.  I
would say it was referring to something known at the time of authorship of
this specific story - either this is an oral tradition from Rahab's time,
or the verse is referring to whom he saw as her descendants.

Kol Tuv,
Baruch Alster
Kochav Ya`akov, Israel