New 'Ten Commandments' Makes Moses All Too Human

Zap2it ^ | April 10, 2006 | John Crook

[antiRepublicrat]

Why would a Muslim be consulted, since this event took place before here was a Muslim religion!

Why would a Christian be consulted?

[Miss Marple]

You have a point.

[hurly]

Not the Red Sea. The common notion that Exodus mentions the Red Sea is wrong. It arose from a translator's error, was incorporated into the most influential English rendering of the Bible -- the King James Version -- and has been repeated in countless adaptations of biblical lore. (Not the least of these is the film The Ten Commandments, a sanitized pseudobiblical epic that was produced by Cecil B. DeMille in 1956 and that still is shown, year in and year out, on commercial television.) Was the Reed Sea just a fiction, or did the Exodus writers have some real body of water in mind? There is no way to tell. See Everett Fox's comments in The Five Books of Moses, his illustrious translation of the Torah. The Five Books of Moses is the first volume of The Schocken Bible, issued by Schocken Books (New York City). [return to text]

I JUST GOOGLED "HEBREWS IN EGYPT" and that was one of the first to come up. I figure a rabbi should know something about his peoples history and religion. The above is from another site.

There is no mention of the "Hebrews' in ancient egyptian writings. There are two accounts in exodus about the reed sea. in one pharaoh and his minions are drowned and in the other just stuck in the mud and returned home. Rather diametrically opposed.

[BibChr]

I'll go a step further in the same direction: if Christ is not true, then every Christian lives like a lunatic -- and those who don't, aren't doing it right.

Dan

[Arthalion]

I hate to be nit-picky, but what is the Muslim...doing there?

Moses is a central figure in Islam. You have to remember that in a way, Islam is really just a perverted, twisted, and greatly expanded and modified version of early Christianity. Mohammed took the Christian faith, threw out the parts he didn't like, added in a bunch of new stuff, and called it Islam. He claimed, and his adherents still claim, that Mohammed was actually the prophet that Moses foresaw in Deuteronomy. To a Muslim, if you portray Moses wrong (as a gay man, for example), you are undermining their entire religion.

[antiRepublicrat]

Can you imagine ANY of the GREAT actors willing to play trash roles like that?

Of course it depends on your definition of "great." Homosexuals rarely play homosexual roles, mostly it's straights doing it (one thing the gay activists had against Bareback Mountin').

But for an example, I think Robin Williams is a great actor, and he's played gay. I always thought Terrance Stamp is a very good actor, as is Hugo Weaving, and they both were in Priscilla, Queeen of the Desert as a transsexual and homosexual, respectively (Stamp dated Brigitte Bardot back in the day, don't get much more hetero than that!).

[P8riot]

From my cold, dead hands!

[onedoug]

Doubtful, but we'll see.

[aimhigh]

He should have consulted the Bible. Moses was 80 years old when he went to free the jewish slaves. The ABC character barely looks 30. What idiots. Just another assault on the bible at Easter. None of the networks will show a Christian film at Easter.

[antiRepublicrat]

None of the networks will show a Christian film at Easter.

Wow, I just looked and you're right, for around here. The only classic family-friendly thing I saw was the Swiss Family Robinson.

[nmh]

"Of course it depends on your definition of "great." Homosexuals rarely play homosexual roles, mostly it's straights doing it (one thing the gay activists had against Bareback Mountin')."

The traditional definition suits me.

You have a point.

"But for an example, I think Robin Williams is a great actor, and he's played gay. I always thought Terrance Stamp is a very good actor, as is Hugo Weaving, and they both were in Priscilla, Queeen of the Desert as a transsexual and homosexual, respectively (Stamp dated Brigitte Bardot back in the day, don't get much more hetero than that!)."

Here I can't agree. I can't stand Robin Williams. He's nuts. I never heard of Terrance Stamp or Hugo Weaving. I don't see movies on homos or transsexuals.

[luckystarmom]

I have a daughter with a severe speech impairment. We've used the following to inspire her. Being slow of speech and tongue is a good way to describe her.


10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue."

11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."

13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."

14 Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you. 15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it."

[antiRepublicrat]

Here I can't agree. I can't stand Robin Williams. He's nuts. I never heard of Terrance Stamp or Hugo Weaving. I don't see movies on homos or transsexuals.

What impressed me is the ability of this obviously nuts person to do serious roles such as in Good Will Hunting and The Fisher King. Of course, him having DJ'd with jokes for free for the soldiers during the Gulf War kind of earned him a place in my heart.

As for the others, you probably know Weaving as Agent Smith in the Matrix movies, and Stamp as Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars Episode I.

[napscoordinator]

...I thought Moses WAS human.


Exactly!!!! You got here way too soon. LOL.

[decal]

"Bet it didn't have color ;)"

The scene where the Israelites leave Egypt was filmed with the 2-strip Technicolor process.


"IYO do you think the Heston version was better or worse than the 1923 original?"

Apples and oranges, really - there's a modern story that takes up about half of the '23 version, illustrating what happens to folks who don't keep the Commandments.

Theodore Roberts, the earlier Moses, was a fine actor but he doesn't really have the look:

http://www.josephhaworth.com/images/Fellow%20Actors/Theodore%20Roberts/Theodore_Roberts-production_shot_Ten_Commandments-Photo-tinted-Resized.jpg

[nmh]

I just can't win tonight.

;)

Yeah, he does lack the look.

[Global2010]

there is two threads going on the same title.

Why?

[Global2010]

I heard a blip saying that the 2006 version parting the Red Sea cost hundreds and thousand of dollars over the original movie production.

[Tree of Liberty]

Actually, Terrance Stamp is better known as General Zod from Superman II.

[Global2010]

Also the didn't the Muslims not even have a religeon untill 618 A.D.?

Perhaps the Quoran(koran) has some reference in it?

But Stilllll, it is not Christian or Jewish.

Hey why not consult the Gnostics too!
/sarcasm