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Biblical - Was Jacob's son Benjamin born when his daughter Dinah's rape took place?
The Bible puts the episode before the birth of Benjamin. But logically speaking, how old should a girl be to be sexually desired; and how much older was Dinah than Benjamin, knowing she was only about 1 or 2 years older than Joseph, who was about 6 years older than his brother Benjamin. Could she have been raped, and asked for marriage, around the age of 8/9?
4 Answers
- 7 years ago
The Bible puts the death of Rachel and Isaac in one small paragraph, as though they had died at close dates, while it is known that Jacob and Esau buried their father after the selling of Joseph, which happened after the birth of Benjamin by some 10/11 years. Which puts a time space of that amount between the death of Rachel and that of Isaac. Respectively, we can conclude that while the Bible report is true, its story-telling lacks the proper seqnuencing. Thus, I have reason to believe that both the rape of Dinah, and the selling of Joseph, happened at close times some 11 years after the birth of Benjamin.
- ?Lv 67 years ago
I don't know and to tell you the truth I don't give a goddamn. Trying to find accuracy in the time line of the Old Testament is a fool's quest. It's riddled with errors and inconsistencies.
This is the same book that has Abimalech getting the hots for a 90 year old woman.
- pygonzaLv 77 years ago
This is nonsense because something in the Bible put just prior to something else can be many years apart. The Bible does not give a year by year account. You can only tell time by the context. When the Bible says the man married, new his wife, and they had a son, it does not mean that all happened in the same year. It probably did not, especially considering it takes 9 months gestation to have a child.