A group of these kings served one of them, Chedorlaomer, for twelve years but rebelled in the thirteenth. It opens with a list of kings with strange names from unfamiliar places. Bewildering Detailsīeyond its incompatibility with the surrounding narrative, the chapter itself presents a number of bewildering details. Speiser also remarks that Abram is portrayed as “a resolute and powerful chieftain rather than as an unworldly patriarch.” The description of Abram as a “Hebrew” in Gen 14:13 has further suggested to some writers that the chapter may have a non-Israelite source, since “Hebrew” is a designation for Israelites by outsiders. The setting is international, the approach impersonal, and the narration notable for its unusual style and vocabulary.” Speiser, for example, observes: “Genesis xiv stands alone among all the accounts in the Pentateuch, if not indeed in the Bible as a whole. Modern scholars have noted a disjunction between the story of the war between the four and five kings in Genesis 14 and the surrounding narrative about Abraham.
“Four Kings against the Five”: A Non-Israelite Story?
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