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  • From: "Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl AT gmail.com>
  • To: "JimStinehart AT aol.com" <JimStinehart AT aol.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 20: 1
  • Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:42:13 -0400

Thank you Jim.

Certainly the statement/factoid in one part of the OT text and another
one cannot be automatically treated/understood to have same
reference/usage.

Oun.

On 10/14/07, JimStinehart AT aol.com <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:
>
> Oun Kwon:
> You wrote: "A question: you place Gerar in southern Lebanon? What about
> these texts: Gen 10:19 'And the territory of the Canaanites extended from
> Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, 2Ch 14:12 So the LORD
> defeated
> the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled. 2Ch
> 14:13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar,
> and
> the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before
> the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much spoil.'
> Does not
> this Gerar sound like to be located further south of Gaza?"


> With the exception of the Patriarchal narratives, which begin at Genesis
> 11:
> 26 with the first mention of Abraham (and do not include any material that
> appears earlier in the Book of Genesis), I agree with today's secular
> scholars
> that the rest of the Hebrew Bible was composed in the mid-1st millennium
> BCE. This includes the Bible passages that you cite. That means that the
> authors of those Bible passages had never heard of historical Garu, which
> had
> disappeared 700 years earlier (after the 14th century BCE).

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