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  • From: jimstinehart AT aol.com
  • To: Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Year 13 Hebrew Grammar
  • Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:36:11 -0400



Prof. Yigal Levin:

You wrote (in part): “…they served 12 years, they rebelled 13 years, on the
14 year Chedorlaomer arrived. Some (not all) of the rabbinic sources
actually understand it that way, and Seder-Olam Rabbah (the post-Talmudic
tract that calculates the chronology of the world, from which the Jewish
calendar gets 5771 A.M. for the present year) actually counts this as 26
years.”

Thank you so much for that invaluable information about the Seder-Olan Rabbah
interpretation of Genesis 14: 4-5. Much appreciated.

However, could you please comment specifically as to whether or not, based on
Hebrew grammar, Genesis 14: 4 could legitimately be interpreted to say and
mean: “…and Year 13 they rebelled”?

If that is not possible in Hebrew grammar, could you explain why?

(Thanks again for the Seder-Olam Rabbah info.)

Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois







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