Immediately after the Sabbath, I watched this documentary Time Scanners - the Egyptian Pyramids - very impressive architectural achievements of the builders. The close-ups of the bricks got me to return to the Torah to check the following passage which mentions mortar and bricks (the building materials of the pyramids):
"8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country."
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly."(Exodus 1:8-14 )
The children of Israel are supposed to have sojourned in Egypt for 430 years.
"Thus the children of Israel had to build cities, erect monuments, construct roads, work in the quarries, and hew stones or make bricks and tiles." But there is no mention of pyramids or could "monuments" refer to pyramids (of which there were many)?
Rabbi Nosson Scherman begins his commentary in the Stone edition of the Torah with these words: "We begin the study of the Torah with the realization that the Torah is not a history book, but the charter of Man's mission in the universe."
People are still wandering why Pyramids / burial sites are not mentioned in the Torah (once upon a time I was wondering why dinosaurs are not mentioned either)
One of the reasons must be because the Torah is not a history book….
On Friday, 6 November 2015 22:32:35 UTC+1, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
Ben Carson and the pyramids ( it sounds like the name of a new musical group)
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