Jacob's Home Town
R. Travers Herford used a translation of the passages which named Jacob's hometown as Sama in the first account strictly speaking the name of a town nine miles away from Sakhnin. (The account is mentioned in corresponding passages of the Jerusalem Talmud (Avodah Zarah 2:2 IV.I) and Babylonian Talmud (Avodah Zarah 27b) where his home town is Sama in the former but Sakhnin (Aramaic Shekhania) in the latter.) As a result of the variant reading Herford considered the question of whether the account are about the same Jacob or not, but concluded that it is. Saul Lieberman who compared early manuscripts to identify copying errors found Sakhnin to be the correct reading.
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