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  • From: Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Additional data on El and Jacob
  • Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 11:46:18 -0600




barre AT access1.com wrote:

> 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."

The Hyksos chieftain Ya'aqob-har was a contemporary of Auserre Apepi at
Avaris. Apepi seems to be the only pharaoh of that dynasty whose reign fits
the chronology of the Joseph story. Now...since Joseph's daddy was a
clan chieftain named Jacob who set up housekeeping in Egypt....I
wonder.........


Jack

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