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To: Palter

Were the Hebrew slaves illiterate?


9 posted on 09/25/2010 2:10:08 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: skr

“Were the Hebrew slaves illiterate?”

Yes, they spoke from right to left.


11 posted on 09/25/2010 2:35:24 AM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: skr; allmost

I don’t believe they were slaves — it took 20 years to build the grand pyramid of Khufu and this suggests that it was more during the Niles flooding season when farmers had free time, when they were involved in this national building. The population of ancient Egypt c. 2200 BC wouldn’t have had enough to sustain a large population of slaves. Also, these weren’t Hebrew or Semitic — they would come later during the time of the Hyksos


24 posted on 09/25/2010 3:53:40 AM PDT by Cronos (This Church is holy, the one Church, the true Church, the Catholic Church-St.Augustine)
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To: skr

Probably the majority were.


41 posted on 09/25/2010 11:17:24 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: skr
Were the Hebrew slaves illiterate?

Probably, but the Great Pyramid was more than 1000 years old at the time of Moses.

Machu Picchu was built by illiterate workers too, and I'd guess that most of the Chinese laborers who worked to build the Great Wall were illiterate.

51 posted on 09/25/2010 6:14:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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