Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Tory Thorpe <torythrp AT yahoo.com>]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:18 AM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:
> Yitzhak Sapir :
>     1.  You wrote:   “Genesis 26 speaks of a special blessing of  
> God to
> Isaac.”
> So this is your view of this section of the Patriarchal   
> narratives.  Isaac
> faces a terrible  drought/famine in Hebron.  So Isaac  moves to the  
> Negev
> Desert (!?!?!).  While in the Negev Desert, Isaac becomes  
> incredibly wealthy by
> growing  crops in the Negev Desert (!?!?!).

Gerar is between Gaza and Beer-Sheba, closer to the coast, making it  
a Philistine town or one within the sphere of Philistine control.  
Striking out from the region of Sodom, Abraham would have to pass  
through "the (dry) south country" (Gen. 20:1) en route to the rich  
pastureland of Gerar. What is the problem?

Tory Thorpe