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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>
  • To: "Niels Peter Lemche" <npl AT teol.ku.dk>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Cc: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: `ad hayom hazeh
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:49:48 +0200



----- Original Message -----
From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 5:07 PM
Subject: RE: `ad hayom hazeh
> A remarkable sequence of ladies in that family, however. Tamar
> (maybe a Canaanite woman) becoming pregnant with her father-in-law
> pretending to be a whore. Ruth, a Moabite woman getting close to the noble
> Boaz in the middle of the night, and Bathsheba--married to a Hittite, if
not
> herself a Hittite, starting an afair with David. Midrash or not Midrash,
> there seems to be a lind of narrative pattern here.
>

Perhaps we learn that the Israelites were very diverse in their origins,
including Canaanite and other ethnic elements, immigrants from Northern
Mesopotamia and Transjordan, former slaves from Egypt, etc.?
Jonathan D. Safren





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