Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

All I wrote was that it was likely that Jacob had other daughters. I did not
write that it was impossible.

Yigal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sujata" <shevaroys AT yahoo.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 3:28 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] daughters jacob never spoke of


> Yigal,
>  I am totally surprised that you have come up with such a conclusion 
> backed by nothing but your own logic. My mother-in-law's parents had 9 
> daughters and one son. I also have a friend whose parents had 13 daughters 
> and one son.
>
>  Human logic seems incapable of even understanding ordinary life events, 
> it is amazing that this same logic is also used to understand the word of 
> God :)
>
>  Sujata
>
> Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com> wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Yigal Levin"
> >
> > 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
>
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