Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

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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