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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Dora Smith <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Aegean Ethnic determinatives onPhilistineguardsofJudean kings in Kings and Samuel?
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:11:40 -0800

On 31/01/2004 21:53, Dora Smith wrote:

I've been doing reading in the library. Halpern's book, Dothan's on the
Philistines, and other books on the Philistines.

One thing: David wasn't an Edomite. He had some sort of connections to
Moab, ...

His great-grandmother Ruth was a Moabite - if we trust accounts apart from which we know almost nothing of David.

Dora, you make a good point that what mattered was not so much genetic descent as loyalty and faith in YHWH.

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