Message: 5 From: Shane Mage
On Jun 11, 2010, at 3:29 PM, c b wrote: > From: Shane Mage > > On Jun 10, 2010, at 5:03 PM, c b wrote: >> >> Cheikh Diop has a whole discussion of why there were no revolutions >> in >> Egypt in _Civilization or Barbarism_ > > No revolutions? As Ipuwer lamented, "slaves are wearing the jewels of > their masters." And the Book of Exodus describes the same event > (celebrating, not lamenting) as "The Israelites found favor in the > eyes of the Egyptians" and left with their gold and jewels. ^^^^^ CB: I got Diop wrong on this. His version of Ipuwer on this is like what Shane says. I'll report it later. I should have known better than to challenge Shane on ancient history (smile). ^^^^^ > ...Very interesting that the Israelites > themselves claim that they got gold and jewels from their hosts in > Egypt...The Israelites became rude guests. I think they got kicked > out. > So, it wasn't about "let them go"... The Israelites (the twelve families descended, 3-4 generations later, from the sons of Joseph) were immigrants, not "guests," nor were they "kicked out." It is necessary to unpack the Biblical foundation myth to separate fact from myth and legend, and from the false long Egyptian chronology accepted as dogma by conventional history on the basis of that myth and legend. The factual basis is an enormous natural catastrophe (called the "Plagues" in the Bible and the "Blast of Heaven's Displeasure" by the Egyptian historian Manetho) and consequent social revolution that devastated Lower Egypt. A great mass of Egyptians (Exodus calls it a "mixed multitude") led by an upper-class Egyptianized Israelite (Moses) set out to escape the devastation. Many perished (at the Sea of Passage) but most survived and were promptly organized by Moses into twelve "tribes" named after the sons of Joseph (the population of the the Delta region, "Goshen," already had a large Asiatic component). The overthrow of the (Lower) Egyptian ruling class was completed with the invasion of an Arabian tribe known (to the Israelites) as "Amalekites" or "Evil Angels," and to the Egyptians as "Shepherd Kings" or "Hyksos," who ruled Egypt until the time of Saul (first King of Israel) and Ahmose the Liberator (founder of the "eighteenth" Egyptian dynasty). ^^^^^^^^ CB: Thanks. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
