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  • From: gfsomsel AT juno.com
  • To: peterkirk AT qaya.org
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Date of Moses, was: [b-hebrew] Re: PS /g/
  • Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:28:09 -0500

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:14:02 -0500 gfsomsel AT juno.com writes:
> Peter,
>
> It is a moot point if there even was an Exodus as depicted in the
> Pentateuch. The housing styles and the pottery reflect an unbroken
> sequence which would tend to indicate that there was no influx of a
> ign element into the land. It would seem that Israel was an
> indigenous people of the country.
>
> As regards the dating of Moses (whoever or whatever he may have
> been)
> note that in Jdg 18 it is stated that the grandson of Moses was a
> priest
> in the hill-country of Ephraim who was pressed into the service of
> the
> Danites who then migrated to the area of Laish where the Mushite
> line was
> established as the priesthood WITH GRAVEN IMAGES (which probably
> was
> intended to account for the establishment of the Israelite cultic
> site at
> Dan under Jeroboam I). Since this was the grandson of Moses, this
> could
> not be far removed in time from Moses himself considering the
> limited
> life-span of the time (contrary to the view set forth in the Tanak).
>
> This would have been not to long prior to the establishment of the
> northern kingdom itself.
>
> george
> gfsomsel
> _______________________________________________

My apologies -- that should have read "This would have been not too long
prior to . . . "

george
gfsomsel




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