Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jim:

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:53 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

>
> James Christian:
>
> I am not contradicting myself.  Rather, I am saying that in all the Books
> of the Bible (at least prior to Chronicles), a reference to “sea the salt”
> could be either a reference to the Mediterranean Sea, which was a salt sea,
> or to the Dead Sea, which was also a salt sea.  Rather than relying
> exclusively on the words “sea the salt” to determine which salt sea is
> being
> referenced in any particular case, the only way to determine which salt sea
> is
> being referenced is to look at the particular context involved.
>

Where have you been all this time? Have you not seen that that’s been our
argument all along, that it is the context that indicates that Genesis 14
refers to the Dead Sea, and not just the words “salt sea” absent of
context?

>
> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois
>
> Karl W. Randolph.