HUMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: I Am That I Am, Burning Bush
30 Nov 2018
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Genesis tells us how the israelites end up in egypt and how they become enslaved. Israelites : the story is all about how they formed them as a nation. How people are alike but are different: only evidence is 1209bce a monument is a stele. A pharaoh had a hieroglyph that refers to the israel people . No proof of israel being here prior: abraham and isaac are native to the 2000bce and then is suddenly mentioned in the. 1000bce (in the hebrew bible: pharaoh is a god. He doesn"t have a name making it a fable: pi-rames was a city built by slaves either hired or forced, thought to be built by the israelites. When it is written: pharaoh wants all the baby boys killed, the midwives do not help, the two levites have a boy. The parents hide him for 3 months, and then put in a basket down the nile.
