Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Not only Exodus. The entire Bible, in all its versions (not just the MT), is 
primarily a book about God's relationship with Israel. Some parts of it use 
"historiography" as a tool to get that message across. Others use poetry. 
Others use wisdom. Whatever the authors thought was irrelevant to their 
objective - they left out. Their objective was NOT to teach us what WE think 
of as history. We should always keep that in mind.

Yigal


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
To: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Joseph: Israel - Hyksos - Egypt


> Peter,
>
> I believe Ex 1 was writen principally to make a *Theological* point.  The 
> literary effort merely serves the theology.  There was obviously a great 
> deal of history between Joseph and Moses.  At best only a miniscule 
> fraction is reported in Ex 1.  The author only reported enough history to 
> make the theological point.  I beileve a general rule for the MT is that 
> literature and history are merely theology's handmaindens.
>
> Jack Tladatsi
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