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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
Evanston, Illinois
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