Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

very interesting indeed; i had always thought that the promise of genesis
15:18 equals with precision the inheritance of numbers 34:2.

I suppose the zaqef qatan above בנחלה in numbers 34:2, becomes all
important. And here i thought that the little cantillation marks formed
musical and procedural matters, rather than boundaries of great substance
... :)

regards,

fred burlingame


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

> Now you raise a different question, which is that of the relationship
> between the boundaries of the "promised land" in Gen. 15:18 (and other
> places), "from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates" and the
> boundaries of "the Land of Canaan" as described in Numbers 34 and other
> sources. I, for one, do not think that they are identical.
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> Yigal Levin
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> From: fred burlingame [mailto:tensorpath AT gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:33 PM
> To: Yigal Levin
> Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] geography
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>  Hello Yigal:
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> Thanks for your comments.
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> Nir had suggested lake hula for the vicinity of חצר עינן . But lake hula
> seems far distant from this northern border.
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> ביום ההוא כרת יהוה את אברם ברית לאמר לזרעך נתתי את הארץ הזאת מנהר מצרים עד
> הנהר הגדל נהר פרת
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> בראשית טו יח
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> Even baalbek seems a good bit south of the euphrates river.
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> http://i.infoplease.com/images/msyria.gif
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> regards,
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> fred burlingame
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> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
> wrote:
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> Hi Fred,
>
> The short answer is no. However, several of the places mentioned before and
> after are known. In general, the northern border of Canaan seems to run
> north of todays Baalbek in the central Beqaa Valley. Have a look at Yohanan
> Aharoni's Land of the Bible or the Catra/MacMillan Bible Atlas.
>
>
> Yigal Levin
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