Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jim:

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:27 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

>  Karl:
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> 1.  You wrote:  “There are errors in your analysis: the meeting was held 
> not in the
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> Transjordan, rather west of the Jordan….”
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> No, the text tells us that the meeting between Jacob and Esau occurred at 
> Penuel in the Transjordan, immediately after Jacob crossed the Jabbok 
> River.  The Jabbok River is exclusively in the Transjordan, and does not 
> exist “west of the Jordan”.
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> I promised you I would not answer another of your essays. I got this far
before realizing that you had written another essay, so I erased the rest of
it unread. Since I got this far, I will answer this one question.

Genesis 32 indicates that it is the Jordan River being crossed (verse 11, 10
in English) at the ford named YBQ (verse 23, 22 in English). There is
nothing about a river named Jabbok in this chapter.

Karl W. Randolph.