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I don't speak Hebrew and I'm not a Biblical scholar either, but this sounds like a lot of gobbledey to me.
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As luck would have it, my wife speaks Hebrew and she's a Biblical scholar (I guess...she has a B.A. Honours in Religious Studies from McGill, specializing in the Western Abrahamic religions). I know she's studied this particular story in her classes. Unfortunately, she's sleeping right now, but I'll ask her tomorrow what the supposed message of that tale was, other than being another sad, disgraceful tale of female oppression (of which the Bible is filled with many -- keep that in mind anytime you hear someone preaching about the superiority of "Biblical values").
Something else that never sat right with me, that most people rarely give a second though to, is the story in Exodus about the plagues on Egypt, particularly the final plague, in which God kills all the first-born sons of the Egyptians. WTF is up with that? Ok, I get that Pharoah is portrayed as an evil overlord because he enslaved "God's chosen people", but why punish the average Egyptian family? God was quite literally a baby killer, a genocidal monster, and this is a story that people tell their children as a glorified example of good triumphing over evil.
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the nobleness and kindness of Abraham
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The same Abraham who very nearly murdered his own son because the voice in his head told him to? The same Abraham who twice pretended his wife was actually his sister so that she could seduce other men?