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   From: ygursey@gmail.com   
      
   On Sep 9, 6:16 am, Yusuf B Gursey  wrote:   
   > On Sep 9, 2:35 am, Martin Edwards  wrote:   
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   > > 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   
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   > > >>> the same way someone brought up in England would speak French or   
   Greek, with   
   > > >>> 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,   
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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   
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   > 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).   
      
      
   "draws out"   
      
   > the slavery in Egypt seems to be the Egyptian occupation of Canaan.   
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   > > 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   
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   > in the US we say "crooked", is this Br. Eng.?   
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   > > actually a tax inspector and did not work with them.  Pontius Pilate   
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