RE: If the Exodus didn't happen, the Jews wouldn't put themselves under the Mosaic law
November 5, 2014 at 3:13 am
(November 4, 2014 at 12:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: What made it even worse was that they were going to spend the next forty years flopping around in the desert.
You know, Wyrd, one of the many interesting little tidbit which emerged from Israel Finkelstein's "The Bible Unearthed" was the difference between Israeli tradition and xtian tradition about that very issue. Xtians seem to think that Moses - no GPS for this guy - led his people around in a fucking circle for 40 years. The Israeli understanding was that they hung out at Kadesh Barnea for 38 years; Kadesh Barnea being the only oasis in the region which could sustain a number of people....although not 2 million!
As is customary, the xtian vision seems nonsensical.
Is there anything in the fairy tale that suggests that the Moses gang kicked back at an oasis for 38 years?
