On Jul 22, 2013, at 8:19 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2013, at 13:53, Isaac Fried wrote: > > Bear in mind that many of the biblical heroines, Rebekah, Rachel, > Lea, Ruth, Esther, were just little girls (if I correctly remembers > Rashi says Rebekah was 3 years old when she married Isaac, then she > was "childless"). Abraham may very well have asked his servant to bring a child that they could raise up for Isaac; the story, however, does not read this way. > The fact that Ruth was still a childless widow at > the time, means she was about 14 years old. How old was Naomi? I > would say about 30. I'll buy that. I agree with Jim also that Rebekah may have been 15, although he bases this on a half-year shanah. > > Isaac Fried, Boston University Jonathan Mohler Baptist Bible Graduate School Springfield, MO
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