Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Karl,

While what you write may be true (although do you have any examples?), one 
cannot assume that Jacob did not have other daughters. As I wrote, 
statistically, for a man with 12 sons to have only one daughter is not 
likely. It's more likely that the text simple did not consider them 
significant enough to mention.

Yigal
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: <Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com>; <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>; 
<b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] daughters jacob never spoke of


> "Daughters" included both daughters-in-law and
> granddaughters. Therefore there is no need to posit
> that Jacob himself had more than the one daughter
> listed in Scripture.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.