Ping.
Isn’t that the truth? May the Lord bless and keep Israel.
Remarkable insight.
One could even take it further, and remark that Mohammed could never have invented Islam if he has not had the Jewish Bible to draw upon and distort to his own purposes.
Even to going back and re-writing which sons received the inheritance.
That is why I have come to think of Islam not as an independent theistic religion, but fundamentally as a heresy, based on Judaism and Christianity, but distorting both and turning them upside down.
It wasn’t his to give an his father obviously never recognized the deal since on his death bed he thought he was giving his blessing to Esau.
It must have been enormously tempting for the sons of Jacob to rearrange the details of this story. The fact that they didn’t adds to the credibility of the books IMO.
Great article - thanks for sharing. I’m sending it on to some who will appreciate it as well.
That’s the Arab way. They did the same in Gaza, destroyed the greenhouses.
Happy Thanksgiving.