(24) sons expresses a distinction between the pure-blooded stock and hybrid, or perhaps alien and subjugated, clans (Guthe, GVI, 5).
The vv. bear the unmistakable signature of a Yahwistic genealogy:
cf. (
Hebrew characters) 20. 24, w. 422. 26 1021 1938; 21a w. 1015; 23b w. 919 (1029 254); (Hebrew characters) 23
(see p. 98). Of P's style and manner there is no trace; and with
regard to 'Ûẓ and 'Ărām, there is a material discrepancy between
the two documents (v.21 cpd. with 1022f.). The introductory formula
(Hebrew characters) is not exclusively Elohistic (see on 151), and in any case
would be an insufficient reason for ascribing (We. Comp.2 29 f.) the whole
section to E. See Bu. Urg. 220 ff.—The genealogy appears to have
been inserted with reference to ch. 24, from which it was afterwards
separated by the amalgamation of P (ch. 23) with the older documents.
Its adaptation to this context is, however, very imperfect. Here
Abraham is informed of the birth of Nāḥôr's children, whereas in the
present text of 24 the grandchildren (Laban and Rebekah) are grown
up. Moreover, with the excision of the gloss 23a (v.i.), the only point
of direct contact with ch. 24 disappears; and even the gloss does not
agree with the view of Rebekah's parentage originally given by J
(see on 2415). Hence we must suppose that the basis of the passage is
an ancient genealogy, which has been recast, annotated, and inserted
by a Yahwistic writer at a stage later than the composition of ch. 24,
but earlier than the final redaction of the Pent.
20. (Hebrew characters)] see on 1129.—(Hebrew characters)] 1122.—21. (Hebrew characters)] in 1023 a subdivision
of Aram, is here the principal ((Hebrew characters)) Naḥorite tribe (cf. 3628).—(Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters),
(Greek characters), etc.)] mentioned in Jer. 2523 after Dĕdān and Têmā, is probably
the Bâzu of Esarhaddon's inscr. (KIB, ii. 130 f.), an unidentified district
of N Arabia (so Jb. 322).—(Hebrew characters)] unknown; see Praetorius,
ZDMG, 1903, 780.—(Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters)) is possibly a gloss (Gu.),
but the classification of the powerful Aramæans (see on 1022) as a
minor branch of the Naḥorites is none the less surprising: see p. 334
below.—22. (Hebrew characters)] The eponym of the (Hebrew characters). But whether by these the
well-known Chaldæans of S Babylonia are meant is a difficult question.
Probability seems in favour of the theory that here, as in 2 Ki. 242, Jb.
117, an Arabian (or rather Aramæan) nomadic tribe is to be understood,
from which the Bab. [LOTE: **] may have sprung (Wi. AOF, ii. 250 ff.;
Gu.). The result has a bearing on the meaning of Arpakšad in 1022
(see also on 1128).—(Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters)] probably the Ḫazû mentioned after Bâzu
in Esarhaddon's inscr. (above).—(Hebrew characters) and (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters), (Greek characters)) are not
known. With the former have been compared Palm. (Hebrew characters) (Levy,
ZDMG, xiv. 440) and Sin. (Hebrew characters) (Cook, Gl. 98; Lidz. Hdb. 352), both
personal names.—(Hebrew characters)] as personal name 2415ff. (J), 2520 282. 5 (P).—23a.
is a gloss (Di. Gu.) excluded by the general scheme of the
genealogy and by the number 8 in 23b. The last consideration is
decisive against Di.'s view that the original text was (Hebrew characters).—24.
(Hebrew characters)] cas. pend.: G-K. §§ 111 h, 147 e. (Hebrew characters) = (Greek characters) (see Sta.
GVI, i. 380): a Ḥittite origin is suggested by Jensen (ZDMG, xlviii.
468 ff., developing a hint of Ew.).—(Hebrew characters)] [E] (Hebrew characters), G (Greek characters), (Greek characters), etc.*
