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  • From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • To: leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Galilean Bethlehem?
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:33:27 EDT


Oun Kwon:

Without realizing it, you are re-creating an ancient Jewish controversy.
Rachel is portrayed at Genesis 35: 19 as dying at Bethlehem in Galilee. But
post-exilic Jews re-interpreted that to mean Bethlehem of Judea, which was
close to the place that the post-exilic Jews (unlike the Patriarchs) loved,
Jerusalem. Likewise, chapter 21 of Genesis tells us that Isaac was born in
GRR, which per item #80 on the mid-15th century BCE Thutmose III list of
places in Canaan is Upper Galilee. But whereas GRR historically is Upper
Galilee, Ezra re-interpreted that reference by claiming at II Chronicles 14:
12-13
that there supposedly is an unattested place called GRR in southwestern
Judah.

Neither Jews nor Christians have been comfortable with those references in
sacred scripture to Galilee.

Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois




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