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  • From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
  • To: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: tladatsi AT charter.net
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Oxen & Oxcarts in the Exodus
  • Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:01:22 -0500

Vadim,

You have missed my point. The author of the Exodus story
clearly intended to reader to understand the events
described were the result of divine intervention, i.e
miracles. Miracles not need *explanations*. Yahweh can do
whatever Yahweh wants to do.

In any event, as the later text unmistakely states, the
cattle are in danger of dying from thrist (as are the
Israelites). So the author is conveying a dry, desolate
Sinai, rather like the real one today. The author is
saying that the cattle and Israelites would have died of
thirst in a barren wasteland without Yahwehs help.
Climatology is not the issue.

Jack Tladatsi




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