Biblical Hebrew Forum

[<tladatsi AT charter.net>]

Peter,

I am confused by your response.  You seem to be suggesting 
that you are disagreeing with me that the Exodus was a 
series of miracles.  Your explanations for the appearance 
of oxen and carts seems to me to suggest that divine agency 
is not at work in the story of the Exodus.  The text of 
Genesis (and Numbers) make it quite clear that the author 
intended for the reader to understand the events to be 
miracles, i.e. events impossible to explain except by the 
direct intervention of Yahweh.  As such, things that would 
not normally occur, do.  Oxen in the desert would be a 
miracle but that would not really be out of place in the 
story of Exodus.

So, are you sayig that the story as told in Exodus was not 
miraculous or did I mis-understand your posting.


Jack Tladatsi