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Re: Who killed Goliath--David or Elhanan???
> From root@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Thu Jun 13 16:36 NZS 1996
>
> >"same" what? Sounds more like variants to me.
> Obviously, they're variants, but, let's hasten to add, of the same story.
>
> The situation gets more obscured when you take a story like Abraham and
> Sarah at the court of Abimelech (which also gets run as Abraham & Sarah at
> the court of Pharaoh) getting rehashed as Isaac and Rebekah -- you'd think
> that that old lech, Abimelech, would have learnt.
In the Sarah/Abraham Issac/Rebekah cases it looks to me like Abraham,
Sarah and Pharaoh is one case, Issac, Rebekah, and Abimelech another
and the incident with Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech looks to be a
combination of the two. I would see two stories here not one or three.
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