Texts · 16 · Isaac and Rebekah
Two treaties at Beersheba
Abraham also makes a treaty with Abimelech at Beersheba over a well. Isaac does the same a generation later and names it again.
An improbable, revealing duplication.
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Why would the name be forgotten one generation later? The duplication points to separate traditions combined.
Bible reference: Genesis 21:22–34
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 266
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