Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:10 PM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Yeah,
>
> it's been making me wonder, though. Whether this could be construed in any
> way as a hint of the author's perceived location of the Garden of Eden.
>

No, not when he likens it to Egypt as well.

>
> Also, something else it made me think about. It makes the author come
> across as somebody familiar with Egypt as a well watered pasture land.
>

More than a pasture land. Abraham had just been there, at least to the
northern, more fruitful area, and saw what it was like.

>
>
> James Christian
>
> Karl W. Randolph.