Comments on: Moab http://bookofvoices.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/moab/ Biblical Microfictions by Joseph Zitt Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:24:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: bookofvoices http://bookofvoices.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/moab/#comment-4 bookofvoices Sat, 05 May 2007 05:02:21 +0000 http://bookofvoices.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/moab/#comment-4 Beginning this, I had no idea who Moab was. I knew that there was a tribe of that name, but had forgotten that the person from whom they were descended was an actual character in the Bible. (I must once have known this -- in my preteen years in the National Bible Contest, I could rattle off any genealogy you wanted or identify who said any line of text to who for three books of the Bible that we were tested on that year, resulting in my having won the Northeast U.S. region three years running.) Digging for the name, I discovered that he was said to be the son of Lot and Lot's daughter. (And I had remembered their encounter, but not that they she had a son by him.) Following that, and looking back through Lot's story led me to write this first of these texts. Beginning this, I had no idea who Moab was. I knew that there was a tribe of that name, but had forgotten that the person from whom they were descended was an actual character in the Bible. (I must once have known this — in my preteen years in the National Bible Contest, I could rattle off any genealogy you wanted or identify who said any line of text to who for three books of the Bible that we were tested on that year, resulting in my having won the Northeast U.S. region three years running.)

Digging for the name, I discovered that he was said to be the son of Lot and Lot’s daughter. (And I had remembered their encounter, but not that they she had a son by him.) Following that, and looking back through Lot’s story led me to write this first of these texts.

]]> By: Joseph Zitt :: The Book of Voices http://bookofvoices.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/moab/#comment-2 Joseph Zitt :: The Book of Voices Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:41:33 +0000 http://bookofvoices.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/moab/#comment-2 [...] the texts on the first three characters, Moab, Aaron, and Sihon are already online. Abraham is up [...] [...] the texts on the first three characters, Moab, Aaron, and Sihon are already online. Abraham is up [...]

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