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Do Keturah and Hagar are one person ? ... But the targum claim that the Hagar is a same person!! XXV. And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah; she is Hagar, who had been bound to him from the beginning. [JERUSALEM. She is Hagar, who had been tied to him from the beginning.] http...

iskander, I don't know if you ever got to see the text from Midrash Mishle mentioned in your original post, from last year; but in case you didn't and are still interested, here it is: "[W]hen the Sanhedrin sought to include Solomon among the three kings and four commoners [to whom the Mishnah ...

I tried to look up the information in the Rabbah Genesis but havent been able to find it yet. Genesis Rabbah 49:9 says: "...is it not better [to sacrifice] a thousand men than that your city be destroyed?...the number [was] reduced from a thousand to five hundred, then to one hundred, to ten, ...

... Mark is pretty easy to read as separationist or adoptionist, by which logic Jesus would be an ordinary man who was invested with filial and divine power at his baptism, and I do not think Mark hints at preexistence (if he does, please let me know what I have missed). I tend not to read Mark as ...

...I think that the internal arguments are definitively in favor of the Jewish traditions claiming priority over the Marcan story of Herod's banquet. The catch, of course, is the external evidence, which is lacking for the Jewish traditions until much, much later than the text of Mark is attested. ...