Saul Sadka
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Author, The Intertextual Tanakh. Bible Scholarship, Real Estate, Torah. Buy the latest commentary at http://amazon.com/dp/1602804702
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What we see in the early modern period is an appropriation of a biblical heritage mediated and transformed through maps in a different political context of nascent nation states.
Show PostThe interpretive challenge is that even texts like Num 34 need to be read in their ancient political context, and our own assumptions make that quite difficult.
Show PostVery little is not the same as nothing. Indeed, in my discussion of the interpretation of Gen 10 I noted that the boundaries of Canaan (and only Canaan) were defined in the biblical text. There is, of course, a larger story to be told here and I gave only a part of it.
Show PostSaul, I’m not saying what you think I’m saying. So even the last sentence of the article reads “A text that says very little about geographical boundaries gradually became a paradigmatic instance of God’s ordering of the world according to nation states”.
Show PostDelineated borders are occasionally found in the ancient Near Eastern world though nearly always an imposition of a suzerain on vassals.
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