Starting to revise my thesis for further use and there are some parts that I’m struggling to understand myself … whoops

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What is this one on?

I read this literally holding my health forms for ARC application at my doctor’s office in Canada. It was a real sense of deja vu.

Nice catch. Helpful thoughts! Thanks for the dialogue!

Ah very helpful. I’ve never ventured into Sam Hebrew myself, but now I see I should. Your thought does assume that SamP preserves an older tradition. Is that something you’re generally comfortable with? (Genuine question btw: I’m still learning much about SamP and textual traditions)

I should clarify: it’s not so much the ordering overall (I’m not troubled by Judah vs Reuben start in ch 2 and 1), but the grouping of where Gad occurs. Both lists at least keep the camps together, except for Gad in ch 1 compared to ch 2. Enough order and enough disorder to make me think hmm?

Correction: 4/7 in previous thread. Not Gad’s father, but Eliasaph’s father. I just used tribe names instead of the leader’s name for simplicity sake of identifying the people.

I know this can only be answered by a larger study on the ordering of the 12 tribes in various lists, taking into account Genesis narratives. If anyone has leads on comparing these, please send them my way! It seems like there is *something* going on here. I just don’t know what, if anything. 7/7

I was hoping that the spelling variants would shed light in the order variant nascent to all versions in 1:14. It does but not in the way that I expected: the placing of Gad in 1:14 seems original, thus validating further study into the narrative effect of this misplaced order. /6