Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lewis Reich" <lbr AT sprynet.com>]

Betrayng a sad lack of familiarity with the Torah.  To return to the Hebrew
Bible, Exodus, of course explicitly refers to the Israelites being involved
with making mud bricks and building "aray miskenot", not pyramids.  Had they
been involved in building pyramids, one assumes the Israelites would have
been doing quarry work and hauling stones, though mud brick was used in the
cores of Middle Kingdom pyramids.  New Kingdom pharaohs (the era of Rameses
II and Merneptah) did not build pyramids, of course.

Lewis Reich

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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Fried
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 9:31 PM
To: Jack Kilmon
Cc: Hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A plea to the Egyptians

It came from the mouth of a joker so it must be a joke. Many Jews  
know their history in Egypt from the Passover Hagadah, where they see  
clear illustrations of the Hebrews building the pyramids.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 5, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Jack Kilmon wrote:

> Are there really people in the world who think that Jews built the  
> pyramids? They wouldn't know there was no such thing as a Jew, or  
> an Israelite, in the 3rd millennium BCE?  That's kind of like  
> saying Texans built the Parthenon. It was meant as just a joke?
>
> Jack
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 6:20 PM
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> Subject: [b-hebrew] A plea to the Egyptians
>
>> As I saw circulated in the internet:
>>
>> Please, don't destroy the pyramids, we will not come back to  
>> rebuild  it. Signed: the Jews
>>
>> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>>
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