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  • From: "George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: peterkirk AT qaya.org
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Relevance Theory & Hebrew Semantics
  • Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:42:05 -0400

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:04:15 +0100 Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
writes:
> On 16/08/2004 21:45, MarianneLuban AT aol.com wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> >David Rohl not withstanding, ...
> >
>
> And the minimalists notwithstanding. And those who date the Torah to
> the
> divided kingdom era notwithstanding.
>
> >... the type of ark described in the Torah made by
> >Bezalel et al, conforms exactly to the type of portable shrine seen
> during the
> >New Kingdom, (beginning with the 18th Dynasty) in which effigies of
> the gods
> >were transported. ...
> >
>
> David Rohl ("From Eden to Exile" p.201) states that "It was designed
> in
> the form of an Egyptian robing box, countless numbers of which
> Bezalel
> had made during his time as a slave in the royal workshops of
> Avaris.
> The one difference was that this box was portable..." Are such boxes
> in
> fact attested from the 13th dynasty or earlier?
>
> >... The "horns" described altars, etc. were the cavetto cornice
> >used on just about every sacred structure during this period.
> >
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
>
> _______________________________________________

I should think that it would require a rather fertile mind to know so
precisely what Bezaleel might have been doing prior to and thus outside
the account. I propose that he worked as an engineer for NASA :-)

george
gfsomsel




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