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  • From: "Ruthy & Baruch" <alster AT comandcom.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: `ad hayom hazeh
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:12:17 +0200


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





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