RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 6, 2013 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2013 at 12:42 pm by Greatest I am.)
(February 5, 2013 at 12:52 pm)catfish Wrote: An easy way to "rationalise" the God of the Bible is to equate God with karma... (just my opinion, your results may vary)
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I am not quite sure if I would use the word rationalize but we do not have an argument.
Regards
DL
(February 5, 2013 at 1:02 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: I think it's likely that stories about the Santorini eruption got mixed in with other stories about the Hyksos leaving Egypt.
Who Were The Hyksos
Quote:The Hyksos were basically a Semitic people who were able to wrestle control of Egypt from the early Second Intermediate rulers of the 13th Dynasty, inaugurating the 15th Dynasty. Their names mostly come from the West Semitic languages, and earlier suggestions that some of these people were Hurrian or even Hittite have not been confirmed.
Contemporary Egyptians during the Hyksos invasion designated them as hikau khausut, which meant "rulers of foreign countries", a term that originally only referred to the ruling caste of the invaders. However, today the term Hyksos has come to refer to the whole of these people who ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt's ancient history, and had to be driven out of the land by the last ruler of the 17th Dynasty and the earliest ruler of Egypt's New Kingdom.
The effects of something like the Santorini eruption would be terrifying for people who knew the science behind it all. It's hardly surprising that stories about Santorini got handed down and interpreted as being a deity punishing people.
I agree.
I too see it as a myth of the Hyksos expulsion re-written for Semitic pride stroking.
That system of topological writing was common in those days.
The N T may have been written the same way thanks to the War of the Jews book and Rome’s deep purse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJgvws0ZYUE
Regards
DL
(February 5, 2013 at 1:46 pm)John V Wrote:(February 5, 2013 at 12:48 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Then why did God harden it?To display more works. Ordinary hardness of heart is going to give in before all ten plagues. Read it and you'll see that it says pharaoh haredned his heart the first few times, then it switched to god hardening his heart.
To what end?
Just so that he could kill the innocent first born instead of their guilty parents?
Is that moral and good or is it God doing evil?
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DL
