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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Rahab's Guests
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:18:33 -0700

On 14/07/2003 13:52, Charles David Isbell wrote:

... I don't think Tamar has a foreign
background, ...

When Judah got Tamar as a wife for Er (Gen 38:6), he seems to have been living away from his relatives and among Canaanites, so it seems likely that Tamar was from a Canaanite, so foreign, background. So I don't think we should exclude her from the list of foreigners.

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Peter Kirk
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