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- Title: Looking Back on Abraham's Encounter with a Canaanite King: A Reversal of Expectations (Genesis 20:1-18) (Essay)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 290 KB
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The patriarchs encounter Egyptian and Canaanite culture The narratives in Genesis 12-50, which depict the remarkable openness of the patriarchs to the Egyptian and Canaanite populations of the ancient world, set these chapters apart from the remaining books of the Pentateuch. Further, this openness and acceptance of foreigners is frequently reciprocated by the peoples they meet. When one considers the antagonism frequently expressed toward both the Egyptians and Canaanites elsewhere in the Pentateuch, it is surprising to find that in Genesis the patriarchs are depicted as traveling, for the most part freely and without danger, among these two peoples. Although the patriarchs have their own views of God and the life to be lived before the Divine One, they do not draw a hard line between themselves and those among whom they travel and live. The patriarchal narratives in Genesis appear to be free of any denunciations of Egyptian or Canaanite religion.
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