Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>

> Dear Karl,
> 
> >You are making assumptions that the text doesn’t necessarily support.
> >
> >For example, in verse 21, which land? Any reason 
> >why it couldn’t have been Egypt? When were 
> >Ephraim’s sons killed, after at least one of 
> >them had children and his children named for 
> >several generations? And while the text mentions 
> >the daughter building three towns, is there any 
> >reason to suggest that they were other than 
> >small settlements only for as long as Israel was 
> >in Egypt, hence were not mentioned in Egyptian 
> >records?
> 
> HH: The problem with this idea is that Lower and 
> Upper Beth Horon were well known settlements in 
> Israel, not Egypt.
> 
>                               Yours,
>                               Harold Holmyard

Harold: so you would say that $)RH the daughter was really a descendent of 
BRY(H who founded the towns in Canaan, and we just misunderstand the text? Or 
was she a daughter who founded settlements in Egypt, the names of which were 
also used for later settlements in Canaan? Can we rule out either question?

Karl W. Randolph.
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