To: uhurwitz AT yahoo.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:29:44 EST
In a message dated 12/24/2004 10:34:46 AM Central Standard Time,
uhurwitz AT yahoo.com writes:
> ..."The existing
> evidence and lack of evidence strongly suggests Moses and the Exodus as a
> pious fiction, or at most a gross exaggeration, constructed in the 8th-7th
> centuries BCE (IMO, under Josiah) to give "history" to the group. "....
Targums tell of a story that all but ten Ephraimites returned to Egypt after
a grumble with Moses in the wilderness. This would have been during Ramesses
11's reign, c. 1299. They were retained by force by Pharaoh's Ramesses 11
and
Merenptah until his death. It is inscribed upon Merenptah's tomb "Israel has
no more seed," An obvious false claim. There is your evidence that Israel
was in Egypt, so much for pious fiction. History put them in Egypt and the
Bible gives us the Exodus. If you believe this is just pious fiction why
does
anyone study it so hard?
Doug Pickrel
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, TX
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