James:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:10 PM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
Yeah,
it's been making me wonder, though. Whether this could be construed in any
way as a hint of the author's perceived location of the Garden of Eden.
No, not when he likens it to Egypt as well.
Also, something else it made me think about. It makes the author come
across as somebody familiar with Egypt as a well watered pasture land.
More than a pasture land. Abraham had just been there, at least to the
northern, more fruitful area, and saw what it was like.
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