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   From: glass@panix.com   
      
   >>> It is about Moses.. he has horns too, remember?   
      
   In article ,   
   Agamemnon  wrote:   
      
   >Moses was a Hebrew brought up in the house of Pharaoh. He spoke Hebrew in   
   >the same way someone brought up in England would speak French or Greek, with   
   >completely the wrong accent.   
      
   If we're going here, when and where did the "historical Moses" learn   
   Hebrew in the first place? What was the cultural role of the Hebrew   
   language under the Egyptians: a cradle tongue, a subcultural dialect, more   
   of a class-bounded signifier of resistance or resignation? How   
   difficult/transgressive was it for the "historical Moses" to pick it up?   
      
   How did the "Hebrew" he might have learned resemble or differ from what   
   they talk now in Tel Aviv?   
      
   Please forgive my ignorance. Any answers are helpful.   
      
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