(January 26, 2015 at 5:12 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote:(January 26, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Davka Wrote: Another odd disconnect in the Exodus story: The Israelites supposedly took huge herds of livestock with them, yet they got all butt-hurt because they were bored of eating Manna, so God sent them doves (iirc - it was a bird) to eat for days and days and days, until they got sick of bird meat and begged to have manna back.
Why didn't they simply augment their manna diet with some of their livestock? There would have been ample meat among all those cattle, sheep, and goats. So what happened to all the livestock?
I suppose this is more evidence that the stories were reworked several times, and somebody overlooked the contradiction? I am guessing birds were sent, because Yahweh was the sky god, and birds would have been his subjects?
The 1 Chronicles 7:20-24 is interesting too. Stories about Ephraim's children and grandchildren fighting Philistines while they should have been making mud bricks in Egypt.
or birds were sent because they were in abundance and could sustain themselves on next to nothing, or on Manna/bread from Manna.
