DCF- re: More on the Red Sea...
I am not sure if the whole scripture is legend, I am not sure it is not legend. It is a story primarily, and history secondarily. If I were to need historical facts, I would not turn to the testaments. I know for certain that a collective's history, the Jews or Christians or whatever group, changes as the stories pass verbally from generation to generation. Do you think this happened with the testaments, or was someone keeping a running narrative of Moses, the parting of the Red Sea and other great stories? I don't think anyone was writing it down as it happened, or even after it happened. It was written down way after it happened, and the facts were transformed when the stories were passed along verbally.
How does that sound? Do you believe that it is the nature of verbal communication for stories to change as they are passed from generation to generation... maybe to undergo some embellishment in the process? Stories undergo a change that helps reinforce the collective's view of reality... that is how legends and myths are born.
Don't you think this is possible? I can give you the names of a few books that demonstrate this process.
Just my opinion, and looking forward to your response.
Jon :) |
