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1. wayman29

   Comment on November 29, 2007 at 1:43 pm

   There also may be a theme to the text of Genesis in which Abraham/ Jacob both travel to egypt have worry about being killed for having beautiful wives by Egyptian rulers:

   http://www.ohrtorahstone.org.il/parsha/5768/lechlecha68.htm

   And Canaanite epic of Kirta who lays siege to a city to get a wife. This may also have some connections to the Iliad theme.

   Sorry to include the link but it dealt with the subject manner rather well. I enjoy this subject . Interesting parallels here. Nice job!

   wayman29’s last blog post..On Cross Cultural Comparisons Of Mythology and Literature.

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2. mahud

   Comment on November 30, 2007 at 5:36 pm

   Hi, wayman. Thanks for the sharing those parallels and the link. I enjoy this subject too

   I came across your site the other day and found it really interesting. I enjoyed reading the Dragon Slayers series.

   I read the article on the parallels between Abraham/Jacob/Moses. They are intriguing connections. I’m surprised that the author didn’t mention the parallel with Issac as well, who obeyed God by not traveling to Egypt, yet ended up claiming that his wife Rebekah was his sister, in pretty much the same scenario as his father:

   The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live…

   So Isaac stayed in Gerar. When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.” When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.” Then Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” (Genesis 26: 2, 6-10)

   I’m probably being a bit picky, but I believe it was Moses’ mother, rather than his sister Miriam (as the author claimed), who hid Moses among the reeds, while Miriam stood nearby and watched.

   Going slightly of the subject, I find the connection between Miriam ‘watching,’ and the magical amulet called the Hamsa Hand, which is a odd looking five fingered hand (looks like it has two thumbs to me), with an eye in the centre of the palm, also known as the hand of Miriam (In Islamic tradition is is called the Hand of Fatima)

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