Politics · 16 · Isaac and Rebekah

A legal claim to Beersheba

The story reminds Isaac's descendants of a longstanding claim to the border town of Beersheba and its well, ratified by treaty with the land's lord.

Stories as title deeds.

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Borderlands have hybrid identities and fraught histories; Beersheba figures prominently throughout Genesis.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 264–265

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