Hallo Peter,
I don´t know how you perceive this but it is for my sensibilty a quite
obscene detail to sit on a camel´s saddle onatop of the teraphim. Except one
was representing a riding scene and a saddle would make peculiar sense. The
judean variant made out of this a camel´s saddle.
And why does Genesis treat this scene should this have been some unimportantThe point is I guess partly to desacralise the teraphim and partly to indicate how Jacob stole Laban's inheritance.
teraphim arriving with Rachel - so unimportantr that they had no religious
consequence. Well I suppose, that such an antique reminiscence/memory would
exist only if it was a rather memorial event. The arrival of THE cult image
itself. The proto-icon of those images proliferating later in Israel.
I don´t beleave that any in Genesis is only for gossip.Agreed.
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