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Thursday, July 29, 2004 Book "Moses Legacy"This is something extraordinary - Ive started reading a book! Yes Gary, a thing with pages and words (lots of them), stuck between two covers, which you can hold and squint at, and fall asleep in front of the fire with! A real book!!!You see (for other non-BSF'ers), BSF never allows you one spare moment for such diversionary pleasures as books. Anyway, it's fun and maybe I'll get half-way through before BSF atarts again (soon). The book is one my Catholic colleague has loaned me, called "The Moses Legacy" by Graham Phillips (author of "Act of God", the cover tells us). I've only just started, reading ch's about "The One God" (interesting to consider that until the time of Moses, according to Phillips, there is no evidence that anyone in the world had ever considered worshipping just one God - not even the Israelites) and "The Hebrew Bible". I've also read that the only history we have of the Hebrews before the 6th C BCE is contained in the Jewish Tanak, or OT. And that Phillips believes many of the OT stories, written only relatively recently (late 7th C BCE), were inspired by Babylonian "legends". Interestingly, Phillips believes there is "compelling evidence" in the form of a huge volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Thera for all of the plagues of the Exodus. I know I'm not going to find all of Phillips' views acceptable, but it's good food for thought (and for falling asleep). # posted by geoff @ 4:35 pm 0 comments
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