The name of the servant is never mentioned. However, it is a decent guess that it was Eliezer -
In the great tradition of Jewish exegesis, this pushes the sanity needle a bit into the red zone, but why not mention the guy's name even one time in Genesis 24? The obvious answer is that the guy writing Genesis 24 didn't know Genesis 15:2.The Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer identified the unnamed steward of Abraham’s household in Genesis 24:2 with Abraham’s servant Eliezer introduced in Genesis 15:2. The Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer told that when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, all the magnates of the kingdom gave him gifts, and Nimrod gave Abraham Nimrod’s first-born son Eliezer as a perpetual slave. After Eliezer had dealt kindly with Isaac, he set Eliezer free, and God gave Eliezer his reward in this world by raising him up to become a king — Og, king of Bashan.[86]
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5597-eliezerBut Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what can You give me, seeing that I shall die childless, and the one in charge of my household is Dammesek Eliezer!" (Gen 15:2 TNK)
In Gematria, Eliezer's name adds up to 318, which goes back to
When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he mustered his retainers, born into his household, numbering three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. (Gen 14:14 TNK)
Jim Stinehart claims that 318 is Hurrian -That Eliezer took part in that battle, or was, perhaps, the only combatant at Abraham's side, the Rabbis find indicated in the number (318) of the soldiers (Gen. xiv. 14), the numerical value of the letters in being 1 + 30 + 10 + 70 + 7 + 200 = 318 (Gen. R. xliii., xliv.; Pesiḳ. 70a, b; Ned. 32a; Shoḥer Ṭob to Ps. cx.; compare Ep. Barnabas ix.; it is the classical illustration of Gemaṭria under the twenty-ninth Exegetical Rule of Eliezer, the son of Jose the Galilean). Modern critics (Hugo Winckler and Gunkel) have held this "318" to refer to the number of days in the year that the moon is visible. The rabbinical cryptogram for "Eliezer" rests certainly on as solid grounds.
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-he ... 41530.html
Talking to a guy named Karl -
In fact, the scholarly view that chapter 14 of Genesis is much older than most of the rest of the Bible is largely driven by Biblical Hebrew language issues, which is your specialty. Consider the following mid-2nd millennium BCE language aspects of chapter 14 of Genesis:
I think the assertion in (b) is dubious but Jim is a tough guy to argue with.“[T]he number 318 in [Genesis] 14: 14 is analogous to the number of Hurrian handmaids plus the bride [from the Hurrian state of Naharim/Mitanni]
in an Egyptian scarab of Amenhotep III”. Gary A. Rendsburg, “The Redaction of Genesis” (1986), Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana, at p. 116.
Please note the H-u-r-r-i-a-n connection there.
(b) The number 318 is the number of taxpaying citizens in Jerusalem (“porters”) referenced at Amarna Letter EA 287: 53-59 by Abdi-Heba, per the
original reading of Knudtzon referenced in footnote 18 at p. 330 of William L.Moran, “The Amarna Letters”, English-language edition (1992), The Johns
Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
My guess is that Jim has it backwards about the relative age of Genesis 14.
Of course, the big question is whether the servant held Abraham's penis when he swore the oath.
And Abraham said to the senior servant of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, "Put your hand under my thigh 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell,
(Gen 24:2-3 TNK)
Being a high minded and sensitive person I tend to stay neutral in these disputes, however -
and seeing how the kid was named Eliezer...So Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched his legs with it, saying, "You are truly a bridegroom of blood to me!" (Exo 4:25 TNK)