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   From: ygursey@gmail.com   
      
   On Sep 9, 2:35 am, Martin Edwards  wrote:   
   > On 08/09/2012 21:08, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:   
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   > > On Sep 8, 3:39 pm, gl...@panix.com (Robert Scott Martin) wrote:   
   > >>>>> It is about Moses.. he has horns too, remember?   
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   > >> In article ,   
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   > >> 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,   
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   > >>> completely the wrong accent.   
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   > >> 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   
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   > > there is evidence of speakers of a NW Semitic language spoken by   
   > > laborers in Pharaonic Egypt. the Hyksos may also have preserved their   
   > > Semitic tongue.   
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   > > beyond that, Moses was probably a composite figure filled with   
   > > considerable imagination or did not exist at all. there is no evidence   
   > > of the Exodus as described in the Bible took place. it is probably a   
   > > moral allegory insipered by various events.   
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   > A recent theory is that it is a reversal of the expulsion of the Hyksos   
   > who were, of course, a foreign elite.  The Pharaoh who kicked them out   
   > was called Ahmose, and may be the antecedent of Moses.  This kind of   
      
   that's intersting. at least one of the elements of the Exodus and the   
   sojourn in Egypt must be the grabling of the Hyksos. do you have a   
   referece for Ahmose = Moses? it is usually regarded that   
   "Moses" (mo:*sh*e)  is the ending -mose ("born of")  in Egyptian re-   
   etymologized by Hebrew "drawn out" - hence the different sibililant).   
   the slavery in Egypt seems to be the Egyptian occupation of Canaan.   
      
   > thing is still common.  In the Brian de Palma film The Untouchables are   
   > working with the Chicago police, whereas they were formed precisely   
   > because the police were bent.  The character called "the Accountant" was   
      
   in the US we say "crooked", is this Br. Eng.?   
      
   > actually a tax inspector and did not work with them.  Pontius Pilate anyone?   
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