[b-hebrew] Joseph: Israel - Hyksos - Egypt
Yigal Levin
leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il
Mon Nov 14 20:45:23 EST 2005
Not only Exodus. The entire Bible, in all its versions (not just the MT), is
primarily a book about God's relationship with Israel. Some parts of it use
"historiography" as a tool to get that message across. Others use poetry.
Others use wisdom. Whatever the authors thought was irrelevant to their
objective - they left out. Their objective was NOT to teach us what WE think
of as history. We should always keep that in mind.
Yigal
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From: <tladatsi at charter.net>
To: "Peter Kirk" <peter at qaya.org>
Cc: <b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Joseph: Israel - Hyksos - Egypt
> Peter,
>
> I believe Ex 1 was writen principally to make a *Theological* point. The
> literary effort merely serves the theology. There was obviously a great
> deal of history between Joseph and Moses. At best only a miniscule
> fraction is reported in Ex 1. The author only reported enough history to
> make the theological point. I beileve a general rule for the MT is that
> literature and history are merely theology's handmaindens.
>
> Jack Tladatsi
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