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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: RE: [b-hebrew] qetseph in 2Ki 3:27
  • Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:14:53 -0500


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

>
> > -----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
> >
> > Not to the author of Genesis, he's not. We must remember, that
> > NONE of this is transmitted to us "objectively" or even through
> > the eyes of the protagonists. What we see is what the authors
> > wanted us to see.
> >
> > Yigal
>
> I agree that we see what the author sees, but part of that is that
> Pharaoh is a god whom YHWH defeats. He kills Pharao's first
> born, also a god. It's a cosmic battle, which YHWH wins, and
> in an away-game too!
> Liz
> >
>
Dear Liz:

The pharaoh who was angered ( QCP ) was not the pharaoh who YHWH defeated.
Yet the picture in Genesis is that that pharaoh was a mere mortal, to be
replaced by a pharaoh “who knew not Joseph”.

Karl W. Randolph.
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