Re: Ignorant people & diacritics

From: # 1
>Sorry but I think you are wrong. It's not Moses who had build the
>ark, it's Noah. Moses is the one who liberated the egyptian slaves.
Rodlox <Rodlox@H...> wrote:
>>Ancient Egypt didn't have slaves, it had the corvee system.  that's
>>like saying that jury duty is slavery.  (it might feel like it)
Speaking in an historical context you may be right about the
corvée. But speaking in the Biblical context (which I believe we
are doing), "slave" is the word to use.  The word "`ebed"
means "slave" pure and simple and that is the word used in the
Bible and so understood for several millennia.  Under the Mosaic Law,
slaves had certain rights.  As I read the story in Exodus the
Egyptian rulers didn't give any rights to their "day laborers."  This
is only one example of many in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures of a
theological concept overriding an
historical fact.

Charlie

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