You may be right that Beer-Sheba, Shur, Grar and Qadesh may be
generic names, like Beit-Lexem, but there is one overriding
consideration for Abraham's travels: He had to avoid densely
populated areas of central authority. He was practically defenseless,
and they were good looking people [blond with blue eyes?]. As soon as
they entered such area they had their wives and daughters confiscated
by the local ruler or strongman. So wherever you place Abraham it
must be a sparsely populated, semi arid region of only few herders.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Oct 15, 2007, at 5:50 PM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:
Everything makes sense if Genesis 20: 1 is referring to southern
Lebanon as
the place where Abraham and Sarah went to have the baby.