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  • From: barre AT access1.com
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
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  • Subject: Additional data on El and Jacob
  • Date: 08 Feb 2000 02:01:40 -0800


1) The name "Jacob" is most probably a contraction of Jacob-El, the name
appearing in the
list of places (!) conquered by Thut-mose III in Canaan, in Akkadian of in
the 18th century
as Yah-ah-qu-ub-il and the similar name of a Hyksos chieftain as Ya
'aqob-har. Jacob-El is
though to mean "May El protect."

2) The phrase in Gen 49:24, 'abbir ya'kob may be translated as the "Bull of
Jacob," an
epithet commonly ascribed to El in the Ugaritic tablets, here appearing in a
context that also
mentions El Shaddai.

3) Jacob took Shechem between almost certainly before Joshua and sometime
after Lab'aya
since no conflict is recorded in Joshua that would explain their possession
of the city.
Otherwise we must presume that Jacob took the city before Lab'aya, lost it
and then some
unknown Israelite regained it again before Joshua. This would also force
Hamor, the
contemporary of Jacob, into a pre-Lab'aya time frame. This position is
strained and without
support.




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L.M. Barre
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