[Avodah] Ahab

[Ben Waxman via Avodah]

Whatever Yosef and Moshe did, that wasn't good enough for Yitzhaq and 
Yaacov, who dafka had to marry family. Locals were out.  So my original 
point remains: For at least some of the Avot, it wasn't simply 
patriarchal descent.

Ben

On 11/27/2015 11:07 PM, via Avodah wrote:
> Yosef and Moshe certainly converted their wives, but to what?  To 
> monotheism and to membership in the Abrahamite tribe -- not to 
> Judaism, which didn't formally exist until the Torah was given.  At 
> that point, every single Hebrew converted!

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