I have to disagree.
1) The earliest that Genesis 32 could have been written was during the exodus
by Moses. This means the conversations of the Adullamite with the
unspecified individuals occurred hundreds of years prior, at the ealiest. It
seems unlikely that Genesis 32 is a verbatim transcript of the conversations.
2) I do not see why the Adullamite and the folks he was speaking with would understand the Hebrew word ?kadeshah? but not the Hebrew word ?zonah?.
3) The Hebrew sentence seems pretty clear that there is a ?because? (ky)As you said elsewhere, this is not the point. He didn't recognise his daughter-in-law, although he probably would have done if she had not been veiled, and for some reason which is not entirely clear he took her as a common prostitute.
connecting ?He thought she was a whore? and ?her face was covered?.
HOWEVER, *my* point is that the use of a kadeshah in Genesis 38 does seems (I
am not saying this is proven) to have some more honor, or was at least less
embrassing, than using a zonah. That would seem to explain why the
Adullamite was out looking for a kadeshah to redeem Judah signet, braclet,
and staff, rather than a zonah.
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