tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post2232424396817804210..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : Jacob's JourneysAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-60754726666779847932016-11-05T00:32:36.358-07:002016-11-05T00:32:36.358-07:00Thank you for the explanation.
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Jolene Thank you for the explanation. <br /><br />Regards <br />Jolene Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06709122984976086080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-37058605065367702016-11-04T12:12:12.521-07:002016-11-04T12:12:12.521-07:00That is a very good question!
This appears to be ...That is a very good question!<br /><br />This appears to be an attempt to bring all the clans under one banner. That is a fiction, however.<br /><br />Jacob comes to be named "Israel" and it appears to be the writer's intention to suggest that all the Hebrew clans came under the label "Israelites" when they left Egypt. Not all Hebrews left Egypt, however. Some of the Horite Hebrew (Habiru) were deeply rooted there and had high positions.<br /><br />In Genesis 28, Jacob pledges this: "The LORD will be my God" which is literally "YHWH will be my Elohim." This too appears to be an attempt to unite all the clans, both those who called God YHWH (as was the case with the Nilotic Hebrew) and those who called God Elohim, which was more common among the Hebrew of Canaan and Syria. The word El is the singular form for God in Aramaic The language spoken by Jesus), paleo-Hebrew, and Ugaritic. References to YHWH have been found in ancient Nubia and at the temple of Soleb (Sulb), located on the left bank of the Nile just south of the Third Cataract. This was built around 1400 BC.<br /><br />I Genesis 24:7, Abraham recognizes "YHWH Elohim" as the one who called him out of Mesopotamia. All this taken together indicates that the Hebrew clans had more than one name for the Creator, and they would have known the name "Ra" also.<br /><br />So now to the question you have asked...<br /><br />Manasseh was the older son of Joseph and Asenath, daughter of a priest of On (iunu - place of pillars), a Horite Hebrew shrine city on the Nile. Before his death Jacob exercised his patriarchal prerogative to claim Manasseh and Ephraim as equal with his own sons (Genesis 48:5). The tribe of Manasseh is the only tribe that settled on both sides of the Jordan River. So this again appears to be an attempt to bring all the Hebrew clans under one umbrella.<br /><br />Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-70904652859557835572016-11-03T11:02:00.722-07:002016-11-03T11:02:00.722-07:00Hi alice, can I ask u a qns that's not related...Hi alice, can I ask u a qns that's not related to the topic of this post ? <br />In Gen 28:5-6, Jacob lay claim that Joseph's son ephraim and Manasseh was his just as Reuben and Simeon was his. <br />Why did he want to claim those 2 Joseph's son to be his ? Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06709122984976086080noreply@blogger.com