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Here's a short thread about Hagar who appears in Genesis 16 and 25.
As with Sarai, we don't have any background information in the text. Legends say she was a princess, an Egyptian. And another says that she became Abraham's wife after Sarah died.
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As with Sarai, we don't have any background information in the text. Legends say she was a princess, an Egyptian. And another says that she became Abraham's wife after Sarah died.
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The plain text tells us that she was a slavegirl, a shifcha. We see this term also apply to Bilha and Zilpah, who served Rachael and Leah:
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Sarai cannot get pregnant, and has Hagar fulfill her duties as an intermediary birther, which she immediately regrets and hates the haughty pregnant slave:
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[Sarai thread]
Let's talk about Sarah, who is first appears in Genesis 11 as Sarai.
The text gives very little information about her.
And many people assume that in Chapter 12, she is 65 years old.
But is she?
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Let's talk about Sarah, who is first appears in Genesis 11 as Sarai.
The text gives very little information about her.
And many people assume that in Chapter 12, she is 65 years old.
But is she?
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The first time we have ANY reference about her age is many chapters later in a tale about a miraculous birth.
It is an often used error to assume that the details in one story by one author will carry over into other stories by other authors.
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It is an often used error to assume that the details in one story by one author will carry over into other stories by other authors.
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But nowhere in chapter 12 do we have any indication that she is anything but the most beautiful and desirable woman in all of Egypt.
That men would be falling all over themselves to sleep with her seems to indicate a young, rather than an old women.
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That men would be falling all over themselves to sleep with her seems to indicate a young, rather than an old women.
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This week's Torah portion begins with a man named by his father as "Esteemed Patriarch" or "High Father" (AvRam). The text doesn't give his age. Commentators like to use "75", making his wife, Sarai, 65.
They're also the first characters to own slaves.
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They're also the first characters to own slaves.
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The very first verse of the passage comes with a problem: why is Yahweh telling Abram to go from the land of his birth when he already did that a long time ago?
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Another issue that we come across, and we are only at the 6th verse, is that it gives us a time-frame that is based on the view that the Canaanites were no longer in the land, long after the time of Joshua.
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