Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <bsr15 AT cantsl.it.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Harold wrote:-

>HH: Yes, I do, but I had forgotten. My sister gave it to me, and I
>don't use it much. Good memory on your part. Thanks. Yes, Alter
>thinks it's a pun at Gen 30:3 too. I think it's fanciful.

At Gen 30:3 Plaut makes no specific comment on the verb `ibaneh.

Speiser, comment: ``For the pertinent verb `ibbane cf xvi 2, in a closely
                  related context (J); both passages stem undoubtedly from
                  the same author.''

So both Alter and Speiser think its a pun. Speiser accepts the
documentary hypothesis and assigns both the Gen 16 and Gen 30
usages to J hence his comment about being from the same author.

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