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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

oops! I meant "their solution". Excuse the typo.

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genealogy of David


> By the way, the rabbis had the same problem, and calculated that there
were
> only 210 years from Jacob's descent to Egypt until the exodus. There
> solution was the well-known midrash that God had originally intended that
> the Israelites spend 430 years in Egypt, but since they cried to him so
> feverently He gave them "time off" and recalculated the 430 years from
> Abraham's first visit in Egypt.
>
> Yigal
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sesamo m." <sesamox AT hotmail.com>
> To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:22 PM
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Genealogy of David
>
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > In Ruth 4:20-22 we find that Boaz' father was Salmon, and Boaz' grandson
> was
> > Jesse (David's father).  In Mathew 1:5 we learn that Salmon's wife was
> > Rahab.
> > This means that this part of the chain begins before the period of the
> > judges. Too few links for more than 300 years.
> > Of course, the Hebrew word for "father" also means "grandfather",
> > "great-grandfather", and so on, and one can assume that some names in
the
> > genealogy are not mentioned for some reason.
> > But is there any indication of where should those lacking links be? I
> mean,
> > is there a way (or at least a theory) to know if Rahab was really Boaz'
> > mother, or if Ruth was really David great-grandmother? Is there a way to
> set
> > the story by the beginning of the period of the judges or by the end?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Sergio
> >
> >
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