say the earliest clearly monotheistic utterance is during the Exile when the the Israelites have been conquered by the neo-babylonian the Babylonians exile is Israelite elites to Babylon and there you see especially in a part of the Book of Isaiah known as second Isaiah scholars
just the Hebrew Bible as one example one point you've got god assist insisting that the israelites annihilate nearby peoples who do not who do not worship Him and a lesser be any doubt the the the God instructs them to leave nothing
want to I don't want to spend too much time you get that you get the basic argument that an on the perception of a would have chosen which Israelites go back to Jerusalem and spread the monotheistic message I do argue that maybe he saw he himself sponsored a kind
play into his lies. They say the baby-- the Israelite women give birth. And they use this word in Hebrew, ..
And Pharaoh believes it. He doesn't even think that Israelite women are like other women, like Egyptian women. He's willing to accept that they are animals, or vermin, or whatever it is, the same sort of tropes that Hitler used.
bloodshed. Um and did it as a complete atheist, right? um as an avowed atheist. non-believers were good to the Israelites . You know, I think to myself, well, just like look at the fruits of
monotheistic prophet um there's very much an air of retribution and I think it has to do with what what Israelites did to kind of maintain their self-esteem in the wake of the complete and utter trauma of the Exile I mean their temple had been destroyed by the Babylonians and they had been exiled and
And the same thing was true of the Exodus story, which is-- the story starts with the Egyptian midwives, two women who are told to throw all of the Israelite baby boys into the Nile. But they don't do that.
the battle against the Canaanites who were then in possession of the land, and not only do the walls of Jericho come tumbling down, and all the soldiers are killed by Joshua and his Israelite troops but also are women and children and elderly are killed and all of the cattle are killed then everything is burned to the ground.
So Moses has God. But above all, the Israelites are enslaved. There's no leadership of them unless they're enslaved.
to be over them and you see this in some specific passages of first you see the air of retribution and passages like where God says to the Israelites about the various rulers of various nations come apocalypse quote with their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you and
and chains are not much to my taste oh come now Reed said Mr Burnham the march to The Shining city is never without pain is it didn't the Israel didn't the Israelites suffer in the desert and have you not heard it said that when God closes one door he opens another when the doors of Freedom were closed to the African the Lord opened
with the original one, and it sounds like this. In ancient times, King David the Israelite won his kingdom with five stones and a slingshot. The English poet five-year-old poem is still read today.
There's no leadership of them unless they're enslaved. So that was a bit of luck-- not a bit of luck for the Israelites , but a tremendous piece of buona fortuna for Moses because he had the chance to display his great powers and duly did.
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. at least in the oral tradition-- it was not understood by the Israelites and the ancient Jews to be about same sex anything.
Him and a lesser be any doubt the the the God instructs them to leave nothing breathing at all not even livestock and then at other times you have the Israelites not only being willing to live peacefully with neighbors but actually invoking the God of the neighbor to validate that arrangement so
and to show that they're also on the side of right. You know the story of David and Goliath with the Philistines offering their champion to challenge the Israelites who don't come up with a champion. And that's actually one important part of the story because it should have been King Saul.
But they don't do that. They resist. But they can't tell Pharaoh, well, we're just-- it's not right to throw Israelite baby boys into the Nile, babies. It's just not right.
And Dor was an ideal stop over. And therefore, everybody ruled Dor, starting from the Canaanite at the late Bronze Age and the sea people and the Israelites , which means the united monarchy under King David and Solomon and Assyrians and Persians and Greeks.
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. applying to God's people, under the New Covenant, in the same way that it did to the ancient Israelites .
If they thought this was really unfair-- this was asymmetric warfare, after all. If they thought this was unfair, they could've rushed forward, and the Israelites would still have been in trouble. And third, and most relevant, is that you can't do this over and over again.