Guiding Questions: Genesis 20

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. How does this narrative differ radically from the Pharaoh/Sarai/Abram narrative?
  2. What reason (Genesis 20:11) does Abraham give for his action, and what is the technical “justification”?
  3. In Genesis 20:16 “kesut ena’yim” is translated by JPS as “vindication”; how does the footnote yield a different reading?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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