Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough that The Prince of Egypt has Pharaoh's wife, rather than daughter, rescuing the infant Moses. But to depict the Israelites as having built the pyramids? Come on! Cheops erected his massive stone piles centuries before Joseph was sold into slavery! Holy Writ says the Hebrew slaves "built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses," not pyramids. ALFRED R. MATTHEWS Huntsville...
...Near Eastern Languages and Civilizationsconcentrator from Tampa, Fla., Goldstein said sheplans to study Arabic and Hebrew literature toexamine "the borders between cultures and peoplein order to create understanding, especially inthe Middle East...
...golden-calf sequence is in many ways the high point of Moses' career. Gone is the stuttering shepherd, replaced by a mighty leader who bears some of the marks of divinity. Never again in the Hebrew Bible will any human attain the fond intimacy of being helped into place and protected by the Almighty's gentle hand...
...Miriam. It is she who, as a child, saw to it that Pharaoh's daughter temporarily returned Moses to his natural mother to be breast-fed; it is Miriam who danced for joy at the crossing of the Red Sea. She is one of only four women the Hebrew Bible describes as a prophetess. Moses clearly loves her. At one point, she and Aaron complain about Moses' marriage to a "Cushite," which some scholars believe meant a black woman. But when the siblings challenge their brother's prophetic authority, God punishes Miriam with leprosy. Moses, however, intercedes on her behalf...
...incident at Meribah begins with the stark announcement, "Miriam died there and was buried there." The next sentence is, "The community was without water, and they joined against Moses and Aaron." This abrupt shift has fascinated scholars, including Hebrew Union College's Cohen. "His need is mourning," Cohen points out. "And do the people gather to comfort him? No. To complain. The same song and dance." Distraught, Moses strikes. With the blows, "he takes out everything," says Cohen. "He takes it out on the people, maybe on God, because he's lost his sister." And the Lord punishes...