Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Zalman Romanoff <flintflintflintflint AT gmail.com>]

IIRC, Umberto Cassuto, which no one seems to read anymore today,
writes that the Torah gives us here a toned down and refined/revised
version of what was most likely originally a poem full of gore. This
was a genre that reveled in…well, things and attitudes we find
offensive and so did the Torah. Same with Genesis 9:21-24.

Noam Eitan,
Brooklyn, NY


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:09 PM, kenneth greifer
<kenneth AT messianicmistakes.com> wrote:
>
> Norman and Jim,
>
> It doesn't make sense for Moses' wife to call him a bridegroom long after 
> they married, but if she was talking about the past when they first met, it 
> does make sense. When Moses showed up in Midian possibly on foot, he was 
> her "bridegroom of blood" because he was already circumcized and they got 
> married pretty soon after they met.
>
> If it says she circumcized her son and then touched his feet (symbolizing 
> Moses coming to her) and said "because (that) a bridegroom of blood came to 
> me" referring to the circumcision, it does not have to mean she was angry 
> at all like most commentators say. She might have meant it in a nice way.
>
> Kenneth Greifer