[Avodah] When was the Bris Bein Habesarim?

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:54:53 +0200
"Marty Bluke" <marty.bluke at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you just read parshas Lech Lecha you would think that first Hashem
> told Avraham to go to Eretz Yisroel, then came the story with Lot etc,
> and then came the Bris Bein Habesarim. However, the Rishonim point out
> that if we take a closer look at the chronology we see that this is
> not true.

[snipped details of the standard, Medrashic chronology]

Note that not all Rishonim accept this version; see Ibn Ezra She'mos
40:12 ("long" and "short") and Ralbag Be'reishis 15:13 ("explanation of
the words"), who both reject elements of the Seder Olam / Rashi
chronology.  The Ralbag gives his own interpretation of all the
relevant passages, and then continues:

And what the author of Seder Olam has said ... does not appear to me to
be correct".

He then proceeds to propound numerous difficulties with the SO
account,  Ayyen Sham.

Yitzhak
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