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      5. RASHI METHOD: CONTRADICTION
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi resolves contradictory verses using 3 methods.
      • (5a) Resolution using two aspects of the same event
      • (5b) Resolution using two stages of the same process
      • (5c) Resolution using broad-literal interpretation.
      This example applies to Rashis Gn38-13a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n6.htm
      Brief Summary: TIMNAH was in the MIDDLE of a mountain. You go UP from the bottom and DOWN from the top.

The table below presents presents two contradictory verses. Both verses speak about travelling to Timnah. The underlined words highlight the contradiction. One verse says ...Judah went up to Timnah while the other verse states ....Shimshon went down to Timnah Which is it? Was Timnah at the top or bottom of a mountainous region? Rashi simply resolves this using the 2 Aspects method: Timnah was in the middle of a mountain range. Hence you went up to it from the bottom while you went down from the top.

Summary Verse / Source Text of verse / Source
You go up to Timnah Gn38-13 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah, Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
You go down to Timnah. Ju14-01 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Resolution: 2 Aspects Timnah was in the middle of a mountain range. Hence you went up to it from the bottom while you went down from the top. 


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