Personalities · 24 · The Other
Rahab, the paragon of 'the Other'
Rahab isn't the ancestor of a real clan. She's a generic outsider whose affection, like a mercenary's, is for sale, yet her loyalty proves total.
Undivided allegiance, not to a man but to a nation.
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As a safe, generic Canaanite, she let authors address sensitive questions of integrating outsiders indirectly.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 383
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