Talk:Exodus
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However, the counts given for each tribe in Numbers 1-2 cannot be interpretted in this fashion. They are given in units of "thousands", "hundreds" and "tens" and in addition the total is given. No interprettation of eleph except "thousand" makes sense in that case, so the difficulty remains.
- True, but the Hebrew Bible doesn't always use the same word in the same way, as it was redacted together from a number of different sources. So the previous reading does remain a possibility. RK 01:04, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- What I'm saying is that whoever wrote the tables of count in Numbers 1-2 obviously meant "thousands", so the large total of 603,550 remains a problem for those who can't accept that the Bible account might be wrong. Of course it remains possible that the author of Exodus meant "clans" rather than "thousands", but that would just create a contradiction between Exodus and Numbers which is even more of a problem for the literalist. I didn't try to write this opinion in the article, but it seems to me that the close similarity between the total in Exodus and the total in Numbers makes it most unlikely that anything except "thousands" is meant in Exodus either. --zero 01:49, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Understood. Of course, I think that when you read it carefully, and with an open mind, the entire book presents problems for the literalist! Which is why some of my co-religions have tounge-in-cheek accused me of worshipping the God of J, E, P and D, instead of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. :) RK 13:26, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- The article, as now written, is obviously POV - as of a non-literalist who feels triumphant in believing that disputed figures prove that Exodus is a story. And, as usual, the term Fundamentalist (whether ignorantly or pejoratively) is used as a broad brush in separating Christians into just two groups. Fundamentalism is one of many movements within Christianity. The article has a ways to go to meet Wikipedia NPOV standards. Pollinator 14:26, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Why not just exchange Literalist for the term Fundamentalist? 13 July 04
Why the {} sign/s?
Why were one or more of these sign/s: {{NPOV}}{{expansion}}{{Cleanup}} signs placed on this page without any discussion, explanation or reasoning? (And why create a redundant category Category:Bible stories that is now up for a vote for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Bible stories?) IZAK 07:25, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)