Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Jack:

Now I'm really lost. What are you trying to say?

When Israel invaded Canaan, those among Israel who 
were 41 and over were born in Egypt, some may have 
directly experienced the oppression of slave work. They 
were now the elders, the leaders of Israel. These were the 
people to whom Moses directly addressed his writing.

This can be seen in Deuteronomy, Moses' farewell 
address. He gave this just before he died, yet he mentions 
that the people standing before him had seen the plagues 
that struck Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea, Mount Sinai, 
and so forth. Those are clear references that they still 
knew the slavery that they experienced in Egypt.

The instruction that Moses gave was that these, the ones 
who had experienced the events mentioned, were to 
make sure that their children and grandchildren heard 
and understood the events they experienced. Thus, 
though Moses recorded only those details relevant to his 
message, he did not make up a story that could not have 
been verified and expanded upon by talking to others 
then alive.

The above is assuming Mosaic authorship of an accurate 
history of the events.

How does your answer fit in this?

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: tladatsi AT charter.net
> 
> Karl,
> 
> Assuming that Moses actually did write the Pentateuch all
> by himself and assuming that the kings in question were
> Hyksos then the answer is:
> 
> Since the Pentateuch ends with Moses death on the far side
> of the river Jordon, Moses would have had to have written
> it, or at least finished writing it, after the entire
> generation who left Egypt and knew slavery was dead. Moses
> wrote not for those freed from slavery but for all future
> generations, including us.
> 
> Strangely enough, this pretty much the same answer even if
> one believes that the Pentateuch was not written by Moses
> and the story is more appropriately set in the New Kingdom.
> 
> 
> Jack Tladatsi


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