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  • 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 16:39:55 -0700


George has asked us to end this thread, so I won't comment on
the topic any more. I just need to clarify one item in Ian's post
regarding what I said:

[snip]
> Does one necessarily need to "invent" such a tradition as the exodus? Can't
> such a
> tradition build through accretions as Dave also accepts?

I don't necessarily accept the idea of accretions. I put the idea
forth for the sake of argument. My point had to do with the idea of
a real event standing behind the exodus story, rather than the
whole thing being made up, but I am not sold on the "accretion"
theory as opposed to the idea that the story is true and accurate
as it has come to us. I just thought I should clear that up before
following George's order and bowing out of this topic.


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




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