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Bethuel ((ヘブライ語:בתואל) ''Bəṯū’êl'', “house of God”), in the Hebrew Bible, was an Aramean man,〔(Gen. 28:5 )〕 the youngest son of Nahor and Milcah,〔(Gen. 22:21-22 )〕 the nephew of Abraham, and the father of Laban and Rebecca.〔(Gen. 22:23 ); (Gen. 28:5. )〕 Bethuel was also a town in the territory of the tribe of Simeon, west of the Dead Sea.〔(1 Chron. 4:30. )〕 Some scholars〔e.g. Albright〕 identify it with Bethul〔(Josh. 19:4 )〕 and Bethel in southern Judah,〔(Josh. 8:17 ); (12:16 )〕 to which David gives booty.〔(1 Sam. 30:26-27. )〕 ==Hebrew Bible== The man Bethuel appears nine times in nine verses in the Hebrew Bible, all in Genesis. Adherents of the documentary hypothesis often attribute most of these verses to the Jahwist source,〔E.g., Richard Elliott Friedman ''The Bible with Sources Revealed'', 66, 68, 69. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003; Genesis with sources highlighted, at Wikisource〕 and the remainder to the priestly source.〔E.g., Friedman at 71, 76.〕 Bethuel lived in Padan-aram,〔(Gen. 25:20. )〕 and is described as "Aramaean", although his Chaldean background is also indicated, as a descendant of Terah. Bethuel's uncle Abraham sent his senior servant to Padan-aram to find a wife for his son Isaac.〔(Gen. 24:2-4. )〕 By the well outside the city of Nahor, in Aram-naharaim, the servant met Bethuel’s daughter Rebekah.〔(Gen. 24:10-15. )〕 The servant told Rebekah’s household his good fortune in meeting Bethuel’s daughter, Abraham’s relative.〔(Gen. 24:47-48. )〕 Laban and Bethuel answered, “The matter was decreed by the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good. Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go, and let her be a wife to your master’s son, as the LORD has spoken.”〔(Gen. 24:50-51. )〕 After meeting Abraham’s servant, Rebekah “ran and told all this to her ''mother’s'' household”,〔(Gen. 24:28 )〕 that Rebekah’s “''brother and her mother'' said, ‘Let the maiden remain with us some ten days’”,〔(Gen. 24:55 )〕 and that “they sent off their ''sister'' Rebekah and her nurse along with Abraham’s servant and his men. And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, ‘O ''sister''! May you grow into thousands of myriads.”〔(Gen. 24:59-60. )〕 Some scholars thus hypothesize that mention of Bethuel in (Gen. 24:50 ) was a late addition to the preexisting story. Other scholars argue that these texts indicate that Bethuel was somehow incapacitated. Other scholars attribute the emphasis on the mother's role to a matrilineal family structure. A generation later, Isaac sent Jacob back to Padan-aram to take a wife from among Bethuel’s granddaughters, rather than from among the Canaanites.〔(Gen. 28:1-2. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bethuel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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