JESCHA. — Under this name, which does not occur elsewhere in the Bible, Gen. 11:29 mentions a daughter of Haran, brother of Abraham, and sister of Lot and of Milcah.

Since no further mention is made of I., whereas in the cited verse and in the one following there is talk of Sarah (v.) the wife of Abraham, whose genealogy evidently interests the sacred Author, it is the opinion of many, already attested in antiquity (Targum Jer., Flavius Josephus, Ephrem, Jerome, etc.), that here we are dealing with one and the same person: I. = Sarah (cf. Gen. 20:12, where Abraham asserts that Sarah is his sister, that is, daughter, i.e. niece, of his father). It is probable that the difference in names came about through an exchange of similar letters in the ancient script, or that the same person, as in other cases, had a double name. But the identity is denied by other exegetes (H. Gunkel, Holzinger, G. Dillmann, M. Hetzenauer, etc.).

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Fr. de Hummelauer, Comment. in Genesim, Paris 1908, p. 362; M. Hetzenauer, Comment. in librum Genesis, Graz-Vienna 1910, p. 220; M. Hagen, Lexicon Biblicum, II, col. 715.

Gaetano Stano

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