Abraham and Isaac each dig a well in Beersheba and make a treaty with King Abimelech. Which story came first?
Dr. Rabbi
David Frankel
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The sister-wife story of Abraham and Sarah in Egypt reworks the sister-wife story of Isaac and Rebekah in Gerar. The passage is an intertextual bricolage, composed to have Abraham, the paradigmatic “first Israelite,” personally experience the nation's core redemptive event.
Prof.
Christoph Levin
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Deuteronomy 20:19 forbids the chopping down of fruit trees during war-time, and offers the cryptic explanation כי האדם עץ השדה (ki ha-adam etz hasadeh), but what does this mean?[1]
Dr.
Shai Secunda
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