On our last adventure, the propagandist writers of the biblical texts as we have them now, write that a suspiciously unnamed Egyptian pharaoh supposedly thrust aside generations of closely-guarded Egyptian bureaucracy to promote a young Jewish man that history has never heard of to run his kingdom because the Jewish man could make psychic predictions from the bottom of his wine goblet.
On this adventure, we will follow the fables written about another Jewish man that history has never heard of who was supposedly adopted into the family of another suspiciously unnamed Egyptian pharaoh in a tale that suspiciously mirrors the legendary tale of the historically confirmed Hammurabi the Great.
The Yahwist Reformation writers have the mythological Yahweh deity speak to the Moses/Hammurabi character from inside a magically burning shrub that may mirror, or actually be, the Eternal Flame notion of pre-Jewish folklore. The writers then have their folkloric Yahweh god commit yet more acts of gross and indiscriminate genocide against both the Egyptians and the people he's supposed to be the patron deity of, and have the their hero wave his magic wand to eat other magic wands and to open a path of dry land through the Red Sea so several million people could spend the next forty years wandering around the Sinai Peninsula eating quails and insect excrement.
Let's you and me join them for the sorts of insights we never get in Bible class.
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