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Isaac Fried: You wrote: “This is how I see it [Jacob’s ‘ladder’/SLM] in my dream: A pulley wheel גלגלת GALGELET is securely attached to the gate of heaven.” Your dream of a pulley is either an Egyptian dream, where
pulleys may have been used to build the pyramids, or a Babylonian dream, where
pulleys may have been used in southern I see Genesis 28: 12 as being 100% Hebrew imagery, which happens to use a Hurrian loanword SLM, but is definitely not Hurrian imagery. The Hurrians imagined a tunnel/a-a-pi to the netherworld. By stark contrast, chapter 28 of Genesis gives us this glorious all-Hebrew image of a “gateway”/SLM up to the gate of heaven. Jim Stinehart |
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