(February 3, 2016 at 12:18 am)Minimalist Wrote:(February 2, 2016 at 10:33 pm)Irrational Wrote: No, it's not the same thing.
What's theologically embarrassing about the Israelites being slaves at one point?
Why don't you explain that to professor Kitchen?
Quote:As Egyptologist Kitchen asks: “…why on earth invent such a tale about such humiliating origins? Nobody else in Near Eastern antiquity descended to that kind of tale of community beginnings.” (K. A. Kitchen, ibid)
From humble beginnings, God rose them up to become men of prominent status and the chosen people of God? That's one good answer. Still not sure what the original authors found embarrassing about that? Or if there is any indicator in the texts that they found this to be embarrassing?
Perhaps that's why most Egyptologists don't think the way this Kitchen does?
