Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet


> 1. YAAKOB had 12 sons who grew up into adulthood.
> 2. They moved into neighboring territories, carrying with them their 
> language, but got eventually disconnected from the main body of the 
> nation of Israel.
>
>  Isaac Fried, Boston University
****
Maybe but

It still does not address the issue of feeding an increase of population in 
the long run,
in the middle of wars and epidemics.

Why did they marry foreign wifes if they supposedly had an increase in the 
number of available women born within their own kinship?


Arnaud Fournet