Posted: May 25, 2015 4:20 pm
Alan B wrote:Agrippina wrote:Regarding Moses,as I said in my earlier post, the clues are there, in Genesis that it was written much later than the events that people believe.
And that is the problem with Biblical literalists; they are just unable to grasp the 'time' concept of maybe hundreds of years between the 'camp fire' stories and 'pen to paper' - notwithstanding any political influence on the story-line between times.
Let alone the dubious nature of such fireside tales in the first place.
Maybe this is what happened...
The people of the Jews being leprous and scabby, and subject to certain other kinds of distempers, in the days of Bocchoris, king of Egypt, they fled to the temples, and got their food there by begging: and as the numbers were very great that were fallen under these diseases, there arose a scarcity in Egypt.
Hereupon Bocchoris, the king of Egypt, sent some to consult the oracle of [Jupiter] Hammon about his scarcity. The god’s answer was this, that he must purge his temples of impure and impious men, by expelling them out of those temples into desert places; but as to the scabby and leprous people, he must drown them, and purge his temples, the sun having an indignation at these men being suffered to live; and by this means the land will bring forth its fruits.
Upon Bocchoris‘s having received these oracles, he called for their priests, and the attendants upon their altars, and ordered them to make a collection of the impure people, and to deliver them to the soldiers, to carry them away into the desert; but to take the leprous people, and wrap them in sheets of lead, and let them down into the sea. Hereupon the scabby and leprous people were drowned, and the rest were gotten together, and sent into desert places, in order to be exposed to destruction...
<full article on Greek version of Exodus at link below>
http://vridar.org/2015/05/25/moses-and- ... ysimachus/
ETA: link.