Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

The bad reputation for Benjaminites comes not from 
intermarriage with others, rather from Judges 19-21.

Karl W. Randolph.

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> karl  Randolph...  ...   Not only the names of  individuals,
> > but also the heads of tribes who passed their names
> >  onto their peoples and  places.
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> ..  J   Anna.... yes, it looks to non-scholar moi that such  a process may 
> be
> responsible for belief in existence of    ''pre-jacob  benjaminites.''
> Then, as we seem to agree,  once the old testament benjaminites came along,
> inter-marriage would  create even more confusion between the  'old' 
>   b  group  and
>   the  'new'   b   group.
> 
> i wonder if such a process explains the 'bad reputation' of  tribe of
> benjamin among some writers of scripture and among writers of 
> extra-biblical  works.
>    Almost as if they are looking down their noses at  benajminites  for 
> being
> a 'mongrel'  crew.

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