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Loomis · 10-15-2005, 02:17 AM

Here is Genesis 16:11 from NetBible™

Quote:

Then the Lord’s angel said to her,
“You are now pregnant
and are about to give birth to a son.
You are to name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard your painful groans.�?

I would like to argue that at one point during the evolution of this myth the story read as follows:

Quote:

Then Yahweh, the messenger of El, said to her,
“You are now pregnant
and are about to give birth to a son.
You are to name him Ishmael,
for El has heard your painful groans."

Ishmael means “El hears.�?

Yahweh didn’t hear Hagar’s painful groans. El did.

In the early years Yahweh was just a messenger.

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