Word: issachar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentrates its bald chronicle of events into a human reality. No strict-interpretationist of the Scriptures, he does not hesitate to contradict or supplement the original account in matters of minor fact. Thus he says that Jacob's only daughter Dinah was older, not younger, than her brothers Issachar and Zebulun; suggests that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death (41). He puts in Isaac's dying mouth a babbled prophecy that stretches back...
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