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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>, "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] qetseph in 2Ki 3:27
  • Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 14:57:46 -0500

Dear Liz:

Though pharaoh considered himself a god, did the writer of Genesis agree with
that? I don’t thinks so. My understanding of Genesis indicates that the
writer thereof considered pharaoh a person of very high status, but still
just a man.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>

> Dear Karl,
> Just a note to point out that it is not merely a superior to an inferior,
> it is always from a god (except in Esther).
> Pharaoh is a god.
> Liz
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org

> > … as a verb, it is always from a superior onto an
> > inferior, e.g. pharoah onto his baker and cupbearer, God onto Israel.
> >
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