Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  Sorry,  you attribute to me a view of somebody else, that's why I put it 
quotes, which I had criticized. If you still have the post, check it.
  
  Uri

Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/24/2004 10:34:46 AM Central Standard Time, 
uhurwitz AT yahoo.com writes: 


..."The existing 
evidence and lack of evidence strongly suggests Moses and the Exodus as a 
pious fiction, or at most a gross exaggeration, constructed in the 8th-7th 
centuries BCE (IMO, under Josiah) to give "history" to the group. "....

Targums tell of a story that all but ten Ephraimites returned to Egypt after 
a grumble with Moses in the wilderness.  This would have been during Ramesses 
11's reign, c. 1299.  They were retained by force by Pharaoh's Ramesses 11 
and Merenptah until his death.  It is inscribed upon Merenptah's tomb "Israel 
has no more seed,"  An obvious false claim.  There is your evidence that 
Israel was in Egypt, so much for pious fiction.  History put them in Egypt 
and the Bible gives us the Exodus.  If you believe this is just pious fiction 
why does anyone study it so hard?   

Doug Pickrel 
Tejas Valley 
San Antonio, TX 
                
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In a message dated 12/24/2004 9:57:32 PM Central Standard Time, 
Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu writes:


> Sorry to be blunt, Doug, but you have this all wrong. The story is not from
> the Targums, but from various midrashim, and it does not concern Ephraimites
> in the days of Moses, but many years earlier. 
> 
Hi Chris,
POP!  You just busted my bubble.  I have senior moments once in a while.  It 
has been over forty years since I studied this.  I'll learn to keep my mouth 
shut.

Doug Pickrel
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, TX