By: Ali Baghdad
(arabjournl at aol.com, Chicago)
Every man or woman has the right to believe or not to believe. My friend Raja Chemayel believes in Biblical Moses. I don’t. In his latest piece titled “To whom belongs Moses” he insists that Moses belongs to all of us, Jews, Christians and Muslims. I disagree. I personally see Moses and Ben Gurion to be two faces to the same coin. Ben Gurion didn’t come with something which is new. He fully adhered to the principles laid down and practiced by his teacher and master, Moses.
Like Ben Gurion, Biblical Moses is exclusively Jewish. He is theirs, not ours. His “god”, a mass murderer and a real estate thief, ordered him to kill, to destroy, to burn, to rob, to rape and to enslave non-Jews. According to the Old Testament, Moses did exactly that. We Arabs should have nothing to do with him. He is mainly the cause of the problems which we face today.
Let us forget about nonsense and be more serious. If we put religion aside, which is only a faith, and employ archeology, which is a science, we will discover that Moses is not real. He is only a Jewish myth and invention.
Temporary Archeologists and Egyptologists have come to the conclusion that the Jewish Bible stories, which are filled with contradictions, are not history but fiction.
Archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman (Tel-Aviv University) agree with Egyptologist and archeologist Donald B. Redford, a Canadian (Pennsylvania State University) that there was no Moses, no Exodus, and no Jewish slaves that crossed the Red Sea and got lost for forty years in the Sinai desert. The Exodus story is a confused memory of the Hyksos, foreign invaders that ruled Egypt for approximately two centuries and were later expelled.
According to a serious 15-year study carried out by Professor Thomas L. Thompson (Marquette University, Milwaukee), one of the world's leading Biblical archaeologists, the Bible is not history but literature, and the Exodus and Israelite conquest of the “Promised Land” never took place.
"Excavations have found no trace of a settled population around Judea and Jerusalem during the 10th century BC, when the Kingdom of David and Solomon was supposed to have flourished.
"A community that could have supported a kingdom did not form in Judea until at least a century later, ,,, Jerusalem did not become a large and politically influential city until about 650 BC. "
The scientific study conducted by Thomas L. Thompson, who rejects the Jewish biblical claim to the Holy Land, also concludes that Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Moses, King David and King Solomon historically never existed.
Finally, though Moses, according to scientific evidence, is an ancient fairy tale, he is responsible, to a great deal, for the current suffering inflicted on Muslim and Christian Arabs. He is Jewish and he must always be recognized and remembered as such.
(arabjournl at aol.com, Chicago)
Every man or woman has the right to believe or not to believe. My friend Raja Chemayel believes in Biblical Moses. I don’t. In his latest piece titled “To whom belongs Moses” he insists that Moses belongs to all of us, Jews, Christians and Muslims. I disagree. I personally see Moses and Ben Gurion to be two faces to the same coin. Ben Gurion didn’t come with something which is new. He fully adhered to the principles laid down and practiced by his teacher and master, Moses.
Like Ben Gurion, Biblical Moses is exclusively Jewish. He is theirs, not ours. His “god”, a mass murderer and a real estate thief, ordered him to kill, to destroy, to burn, to rob, to rape and to enslave non-Jews. According to the Old Testament, Moses did exactly that. We Arabs should have nothing to do with him. He is mainly the cause of the problems which we face today.
Let us forget about nonsense and be more serious. If we put religion aside, which is only a faith, and employ archeology, which is a science, we will discover that Moses is not real. He is only a Jewish myth and invention.
Temporary Archeologists and Egyptologists have come to the conclusion that the Jewish Bible stories, which are filled with contradictions, are not history but fiction.
Archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman (Tel-Aviv University) agree with Egyptologist and archeologist Donald B. Redford, a Canadian (Pennsylvania State University) that there was no Moses, no Exodus, and no Jewish slaves that crossed the Red Sea and got lost for forty years in the Sinai desert. The Exodus story is a confused memory of the Hyksos, foreign invaders that ruled Egypt for approximately two centuries and were later expelled.
According to a serious 15-year study carried out by Professor Thomas L. Thompson (Marquette University, Milwaukee), one of the world's leading Biblical archaeologists, the Bible is not history but literature, and the Exodus and Israelite conquest of the “Promised Land” never took place.
"Excavations have found no trace of a settled population around Judea and Jerusalem during the 10th century BC, when the Kingdom of David and Solomon was supposed to have flourished.
"A community that could have supported a kingdom did not form in Judea until at least a century later, ,,, Jerusalem did not become a large and politically influential city until about 650 BC. "
The scientific study conducted by Thomas L. Thompson, who rejects the Jewish biblical claim to the Holy Land, also concludes that Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Moses, King David and King Solomon historically never existed.
Finally, though Moses, according to scientific evidence, is an ancient fairy tale, he is responsible, to a great deal, for the current suffering inflicted on Muslim and Christian Arabs. He is Jewish and he must always be recognized and remembered as such.
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