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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] Now this is more like it! Sounds like an intelligent exchange of ideas to me!! I don't have too much to add here except that: 1- Hebrew (Hebru), like Hindu, are Ancient Egyptian words used to identify these two respective peoples. I'm not sure if they invented these terms or merely used the terms that these peoples used to identify themselves. 2- Ancient Egypt never created an economic system based on human slavery. The so-called "slaves" of Ancient Egypt were captives of war, which the Pharaoh put to work on his building projects - (Of course this is a form of slavery but in the prisoner of war sense and not the economical sense as it was practiced in Greece and Rome for example.) There are accounts of times, however, when the Egyptians were greatly concerned about the increasing populations of the foreign settlements in the Delta region which resulted in a certain Ancient Egyptian xenophobia. Considering this and Ikhnaton's revolutionary restoration of monotheism to the state and the counter-revolution against this movement, it is extremely likely that the legend of the Exodus has a solid basis in history. Could Moses (and there is some who believe that there were more than one "Moses") have been an "Ikhnatonist?" The bible is a valuable historical document and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. 3- With my last statement in mind, how about the story of Joseph and his brothers, who came to Egypt, and Joseph becoming a favorite of the Pharaoh and is thus given Pharaoh's daughter as his wife -- a handful of foreign shepherds, whose leader marries an Egyptian princess; Is this not the bible's way of defining the lineage of the Hebrews as being partially descended from the Egyptians? Then there's Jacob,who comes to Egypt a little later with the "sons of Israel", all the Israelites that existed in the world, all 70 of them, remained in Egypt for 430 years, then numbering 2 to 3 million, they leave! You think they may have looked a little Egyptian? All of this is bible legends and folklore, of course, but like the legend of Osiris and Isis, its basis is historical fact... [This message has been edited by Wally (edited 17 June 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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