Torah per sempre/La controtradizione: differenze tra le versioni

Alcuni ebrei alessandrini, come gli storici classici delle cui opere erano consapevoli, si preoccupavano dei problemi cronologici delle fonti, specialmente nei libri che conosciamo come Bibbia. Per esempio, in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesi+15%3A13&version=CEI;LND;NR2006 Genesi 15:13], ad Abramo vien detto: "I tuoi discendenti saranno forestieri in un paese non loro; saranno fatti schiavi e saranno oppressi per quattrocento anni", e ciò è confermato da [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esodo+12%3A40&version=CEI;LND;NR2006 Esodo 12:40]: "Il tempo durante il quale gli Israeliti abitarono in Egitto fu di quattrocentotrent'anni"; tuttavia i particolari forniti in Genesi ed Esodo, come il numero delle relative generazioni, implica un periodo molto più corto. Il Septuaginta, traduzione greca prodotta ad Alessandria, supera la difficoltà conbtando i 430 anni a partire dal tempo della promessa ad Abramo; traduce: "Il tempo che i figli d'Israele trascorsero in Egitto ''e nelle altre terre'' fu di quattrocentotrent'anni."<ref>I rabbini in tempi successivi furono consapevoli di questa "traduzione" e ne accettarono l'interpretazione. Cfr. TB ''Meg.'' 9a.</ref>

 

{{q|So after spending seven years there he married two daughters of his uncle Laban, Leah and Rachel, when he was eighty-four years old: and in seven years more there were born to him twelve sons; in the eighth year and tenth month Reuben, and in the ninth year and eighth month Symeon, and in the tenth year and sixth month Levi, and in the eleventh year and fourth month Judah. And as Rachel did not bear she became envious of her sister, and gave her own handmaid Zilpah to be Jacob's concubine, at which same time Bilhah conceived Nephthalim, in the eleventh year and fifth month, and bare a son in the twelfth year and second month, and Leah called him Gad: and of the same mother in the same year and twelfth month he begat another son, who was also named by Leah Asher.

 

And again Leah bare another son in the thirteenth year and tenth month, and his name was Zabulon; and the same Leah bare a son named Dan in the fourteenth year and eighth month. And at the same time when Leah bare a daughter Dinah, Rachel also conceived in her womb, and in the fourteenth year and eighth month bare a son, who was named Joseph, so that in the seven years spent with Laban there were born twelve children.|''Praeparatio Evangelica'' 9.21.11}}

 

 

{{q|When, however, we had said enough in answer to the questions put before us, you also, O king, did further demand, why by our law there are intimations given of hands, and arm, and face, and feet, and walking, in the case of the Divine Power: which things shall receive a becoming explanation, and will not at all contradict the opinions which we have previously expressed.