The interpretation timeline

Gen 37:29

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Gen 37:29 · Douay-Rheims

“And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1105

A.D.

Rashi Jewish

1040–1105

“וישב ראובן AND REUBEN RETURNED — When he (Joseph) was sold he had not been present, for it was his day (his turn) to go to attend to his father (Genesis Rabbah 84:19). Another explanation is: he had not sat with them at the meal because he was occupied with his sack-cloth and fast in penitence for having disturbed his father’s couch (Genesis Rabbah 84:19).”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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