age of rebbeca when she married isaac

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Re: age of rebbeca when she married isaac

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Thanks for sharing that Sergey. Google chrome seems to translate ok.

Personally, I'm a big probabilities fan. As more and more (rather unlikely) interpretations are added for different verses, the chances of the whole package being true begins to approach zero quite quickly.

Even in the single verse Genesis 24:67, we could reasonably assign an opposite meaning. Rather than Abraham taking comfort with Rebekah in Sarah's tent (which seems "normal"), why can't we say that it was Isaac (which is what the verse says), with the implication that he had been intimate with Sarah? ...just saying.

Assuming that there was an author we could call camel/tent boy, that guy's work seems very recent, considering the anachronisms. I think this is important because it compresses the time frame for revisions; we see very little patriarchal stuff in legitimately older parts of the bible.

Anyway, this is all quite fascinating and deserving of more study.
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