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Re: Out of Egypt

From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Out of Egypt
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:42:10 -0700

I have to wonder why they would invent this kind of myth, as opposed to building accretions around the events that (supposedly) actually happened. Fleeing a king who wanted them to compromise their religious beliefs and practices would have made a much more noble story than fleeing the tyrrany of enslavement. So for such a view to work, it would have to explain why the stories revolve around an exodus from slavery rather than an exodus from religious compromise. For this reason alone, the idea doesn't seem to have much to back it up IMO.

Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur "No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be violated." C. S. Lewis

Out of Egypt, Polycarp66, 03/26/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Out of Egypt, George Athas, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Jonathan D. Safren, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Numberup, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Dave Washburn, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Samuel Payne, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Lee R. Martin, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Jonathan D. Safren, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Dave Washburn, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Ian Hutchesson, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Jack Kilmon, 03/26/2001
- Re: Out of Egypt, Dave Washburn, 03/26/2001