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[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Fred, I fail to see what the zaqef qatan has to do with it.

 

 

Yigal Levin

 

From: fred burlingame [mailto:tensorpath AT gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:43 PM
To: Yigal Levin
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] geography

 

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.



Yigal Levin



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




Hello Yigal:



Thanks for your comments.



Nir had suggested lake hula for the vicinity of חצר עינן . But lake hula 
seems far distant from this northern border.



ביום ההוא כרת יהוה את אברם ברית לאמר לזרעך נתתי את הארץ הזאת מנהר מצרים עד 
הנהר הגדל נהר פרת



בראשית טו יח

Even baalbek seems a good bit south of the euphrates river.



http://i.infoplease.com/images/msyria.gif



regards,



fred burlingame




On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

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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