Personally, it makes no difference to me whether the report is
historically accurate or not. I think there is too little to support a
claim that it was, but that is beside the point. So long as one is
solely interested in attempting to explain why they consider it to be
historical or whether the words are accurately reported, one is not
concentrating on the purpose for which it was written. Why are these
stories written as they are? Was there some importance to the story of
Judah and Tamar? If so, what? These are what should be sought.
Otherwise we are majoring in minors.
From hholmyard AT ont.com Thu Jul 15 21:56:01 2004Return-Path: <hholmyard AT ont.com>
Walter, you make the assertion in your article of "Pharaoh being reckoned as
a god". Was the Pharaoh seen as a god? Most current Egyptologists dispute
this concept. What is your source for this? Thank you.
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