The operation for the promotion of my theory worldwide had me today giving a lecture 
on the interpretation of a passage in the OT.
I decided to present the subject to my two good friends (I am in no speaking terms with the fourth member of the company) to see if they approve of my opinion of the ancient scholars of the Hebrew Academy.
Here is the passage:
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him (Moses), and sought to kill him.
Then Zipporah (Moses’ wife) took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.(Ex. 4:24-26)
The great Egyptian god Ra circumcised himself (Book of the Dead, Ch. 17).
Zipporah circumcised her son in order to prove to the God that He was the father of her son and not Moses. To prove that her son was a “son of God.”
She casts the foreskin at the feet of the God and she is addressing Him not Moses!
The scholars who were responsible for the edition of the biblical texts offered a chance to those who study the texts to inform the Jewish people what the meaning of the circumcision was so that they would stop practicing it.
No one, however, will accept the above interpretation of the passages and people will keep amputating their children, but we cannot blame it on the texts.
Let us see whether the agnostics have some opinion on this one!
on the interpretation of a passage in the OT.I decided to present the subject to my two good friends (I am in no speaking terms with the fourth member of the company) to see if they approve of my opinion of the ancient scholars of the Hebrew Academy.
Here is the passage:
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him (Moses), and sought to kill him.
Then Zipporah (Moses’ wife) took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.(Ex. 4:24-26)
The great Egyptian god Ra circumcised himself (Book of the Dead, Ch. 17).
Zipporah circumcised her son in order to prove to the God that He was the father of her son and not Moses. To prove that her son was a “son of God.”
She casts the foreskin at the feet of the God and she is addressing Him not Moses!
The scholars who were responsible for the edition of the biblical texts offered a chance to those who study the texts to inform the Jewish people what the meaning of the circumcision was so that they would stop practicing it.
No one, however, will accept the above interpretation of the passages and people will keep amputating their children, but we cannot blame it on the texts.
Let us see whether the agnostics have some opinion on this one!
"Culture is memory"
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman
