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The Wealth and Power of the Biblical Patriarchs
from biblearchaeology.org: This article was first published in the Winter 2006 issue of Bible and Spade. Based on the overt descriptions of the Patriarchs’ wealth, some scholars have surmised that they may have been traveling merchants, using donkeys as their chief mode of transport. Sarna observed that the Patriarchs had dealings with kings, possessed slaves,…