Nach:

Shmuel 

Parsha:

Toldot,  Vayeitzei,  Vayishlach 

Description

As a follow-up to our shiur about Gerar and my argument that the events described in Beresheet 26:1-33 took place during the twenty years of Yitzhak and Rivkah's childlessness, several thoughtful and pointed challenges were raised by podcast listeners and participants in the shiur. By surveying and classifying the various types of parenthetic statements in Biblical narrative, we respond to these challenges and, thereby, explain two anomalous verses (v. 15 and v. 18) in the Gerar narrative.