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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Toladot and the Book of Terah
  • Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:45:05 +0100

Hi,

Quoting K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>:

Yitzhak:
This is the first solid evidence that has been produced that calls the
theory that I was taught to be in question.

???????????????

What about all the others you have sidestepped completely?

I am still to this moment awaiting replies to the textual structure you were provided of Genesis 10, who the 'they' of Genesis 10:1b are and how you understand there to have been no less than three authors of the flood account with the massive coincidence that just after that there is a listen of the lineage of the three.


However, even this one has a question mark: the LXX represents a textual
tradition that puts Terach as having lived in Haran 205 years, making his
total life close to 300 years. That would put his death after all these
others you list, also after the death of Abraham.

Are there other alternate readings that may back up either the Masoretic or
LXX texts?


I was going to mention looking at the LXX myself. We should also perhaps check the Syriac peshitta tradition and the Samaritan pentateuch.

James Christian

Thanks for the effort. And as I said above, thanks for this solid piece of
information.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>wrote:

Incidentally, Karl, how do you explain the following:
Gen 11:17 Eber lived 430 years after giving birth to Peleg

Gen 11:18 Peleg gave birth to Reu at 30 years of age
Gen 11:20 Reu gave birth to Serug at 32 years of age
Gen 11:22 Serug gave birth to Nahor at 30 years of age
Gen 11:24 Nahor gave birth to Terah at 29 years of age
Gen 11:32 Terah lived to be 205 years before he died.

So, Terah died 205 + 29 + 30 + 32 + 30 years after Peleg
was born. That comes out to 326 years.
But Eber lived 430 years more after Peleg was born.

Terah died 360 years after Eber was born.
But Shelah lived 403 years more after Eber was born.

Terah died 390 years after Shelah was born.
But Arpachshad lived 403 years more after Shelah was born.

Terah died 425 years after Arpachshad was born.
But Shem lived 500 years more after Arpachshad was born.

So when Terah died, Eber, Shelah, Arpachshad, and Shem
were all supposedly still alive.

How would Terah know their ages at their death to write
about them in his hypothetical book when he died while
they were still alive?

Yitzhak Sapir
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