Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] a mystery regarding gen14:24?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:47:04 -0700
Jim:
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:38 AM, <jimstinehart AT aol.com> wrote:
> Karl wrote: “[F]or you to say that the names had relationship to the type
> of people they were, is to treat the account as fiction.”
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> That is quite similar to what Professor Yigal Levin has said to me several
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> But if the author of chapter 14 of Genesis is an early Hebrew in the
> mid-14th century BCE, which is my theory of the case, then in the
> historical context, a non-royal author could not refer to a monarch by such
> ruler’s formal name. Rather, in that particular context, use of a nickname
> was required:
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The Hebrew Old Testament consistently named kings by their given names, not
nicknames. So why should this narrative be different?
And who says that Abraham was not of royal stock?
I notice you did not comment on possible etymologies of R(, which makes your
proposed etymology quite unlikely.
Karl W. Randolph.
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> Jim Stinehart
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> Evanston, Illinois
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Re: [b-hebrew] a mystery regarding gen14:24?
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