To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Rahab's descendants
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:56:49 +0200
Peter wrote:
> For according to the tradition preserved in the New Testament in
> Matthew 1:5, Rahab was the wife of Salmon and mother of Boaz who
> married Ruth (compare Ruth 4:21, 1 Chronicles 2:11). In this case the
> line of Rahab's descendants, which may be referred to in Joshua 6:25,
> is none other than the royal line of the house of David. But is there
> any trace of this tradition in Jewish sources or in anything prior to
> the New Testament?
The only Jewish tradition I know of is Bavli Megillah 14b (quoted in Kimchi
on Josh 6:25), which says Rahab married Joshua.