Torah Pearls: Lech Lecha

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I completely missed that Isaac and Ishmael's grandad was still alive when both were growing up

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Is it possible that the tomb of the Patriarchs isn't in Hebron after all?

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'J' is enchanting. Some of the most impressive features of the Bible come from J. Not an accident. Imagery and pun happen to be helpful memory devices even despite those puns which are lost to English translation. The Yahwist accounts for almost all the charismatic alter building (with fewer instances attributed to Elohist scribal tradition concerning religious sites of Ya'acov in Gen 28.10-22; 31.54; 33.20; Exds. 24.4) prior to the construction of the Tabernacle of Exodus 40, which the Priestly authors would not have sanctioned. Surely there is a strata consistent with Jeremiah 7.22 (often attributed to the scribal tradition of the 'Deuteronomist'). I found astonishing that "mercy" or "chesed" is nowhere to be found in the 'Priestly' sources (as mentioned by Friedman in his Sources Revealed).