Do you notice any discrepancies between 11:31 and 12:1-9? In conversation with Hahn-Tapper, what are the implications of your observation for understanding the question of biblical authorship?
Reading the Bible as literature (Hahn-Tapper, 34): There are two vital pieces of background information that the biblical author introduces here: 1) that Sarai “was barren, she had no child” (11:30) and 2) that “the Canaanites were in the land” (12:6). Why might the narrator be telling us these things at this juncture? What might […]