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   From: ygursey@gmail.com   
      
   On Sep 10, 2:29 am, Martin Edwards  wrote:   
   > On 09/09/2012 11:16, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:   
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   > > 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   
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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,   
   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   
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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).   
   > > the slavery in Egypt seems to be the Egyptian occupation of Canaan.   
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   > Sorry I don't: I saw it on tv.  I am frankly not on your academic level,   
   > but I do my best.  :-)   
      
      
   that's fine I get a lot of information from there too. at least it   
   motivates me to check it out.   
      
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