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Flaming Moe · 08-30-2008, 06:08 AM

I'm curious as to why the construction of the Great Pyramid, which is supposed to have occured 2500bc would not be accounted for in the Old Testament considering that it is supposed to be Hebrew slaves who built it.
Surely the death toll involved in its construction alone would have been cause enough for mention?

I may be way off here but could there be a case for the Tower of Babel being, somehow, a distorted legend about it?

Thanks.

traques · 08-30-2008, 06:25 AM

Nah, the temple was far greater. :notworthy:

TBH, maybe they didnt know about the pyramids, because they were never there. Some people say the exodus never happened at least.

neilgodfrey · 08-30-2008, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Flaming Moe

I'm curious as to why the construction of the Great Pyramid, which is supposed to have occured 2500bc would not be accounted for in the Old Testament considering that it is supposed to be Hebrew slaves who built it.
Surely the death toll involved in its construction alone would have been cause enough for mention?

I may be way off here but could there be a case for the Tower of Babel being, somehow, a distorted legend about it?

Thanks.

The setting of the story of Abraham (ancestor of those Hebrew slaves?) is around 600 years after the building of the Great Pyramid. The pyramid, unlike Babel/Babylon, has no connection with Israelite history.

Neil

Toto · 08-30-2008, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Flaming Moe

I'm curious as to why the construction of the Great Pyramid, which is supposed to have occured 2500bc would not be accounted for in the Old Testament considering that it is supposed to be Hebrew slaves who built it.
Surely the death toll involved in its construction alone would have been cause enough for mention?

I may be way off here but could there be a case for the Tower of Babel being, somehow, a distorted legend about it?

Thanks.

We now believe that the workers on the Pyramids were skilled workers and not slaves. And I believe that it is later commentators trying to make sense of these stories who think that the Hebrews were the slaves built the pyramids.

Jewish tradition does not claim that the Jews built the pyramids. From this Jewish apologetic website:

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another Los Angeles rabbi .. mistakenly asserts that it does not matter "whether we [Jews] built the pyramids."

But as it says clearly in Exodus 1:11 and in the Passover Haggadah, the Jews "built the store-cities of Pitom and Ramses." Jews never built any pyramids, which were built in 2500 BCE -- about 1200 years before the Exodus.

The Tower of Babel is supposed to be a version of the Sumerian ziggurats.

Kosh · 08-30-2008, 09:54 PM

The Israelites were unable to make the pyramid building due a scheduling conflict...

According to the Bible, when the Great Pyramid was being built, the Israelites (or their supposed ancestor) were floating around a flooded planet on a ship made out of gopherwood.

Flaming Moe · 08-31-2008, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Kosh

The Israelites were unable to make the pyramid building due a scheduling conflict...

According to the Bible, when the Great Pyramid was being built, the Israelites (or their supposed ancestor) were floating around a flooded planet on a ship made out of gopherwood.

That makes for an interesting contradiction if a person is a Bible Literalist; how DO Christians reconcile the time it would have taken to not just construct the Pyramid but cut the stones, transport the materials (even a short distance is problematic considering the weight and size) and plan the measurments to align to cardinal positions and so on?

neilgodfrey · 08-31-2008, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Flaming Moe

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Originally Posted by Kosh

The Israelites were unable to make the pyramid building due a scheduling conflict...

According to the Bible, when the Great Pyramid was being built, the Israelites (or their supposed ancestor) were floating around a flooded planet on a ship made out of gopherwood.

That makes for an interesting contradiction if a person is a Bible Literalist; how DO Christians reconcile the time it would have taken to not just construct the Pyramid but cut the stones, transport the materials (even a short distance is problematic considering the weight and size) and plan the measurments to align to cardinal positions and so on?

As far as I'm aware this is not an issue for most Christians. Very few think that the Israelites built the Great Pyramid. I am unaware personally of any who do.

Neil

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Flaming Moe Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ireland Posts: 39	The Pyramid and the Bible I'm curious as to why the construction of the Great Pyramid, which is supposed to have occured 2500bc would not be accounted for in the Old Testament considering that it is supposed to be Hebrew slaves who built it. Surely the death toll involved in its construction alone would have been cause enough for mention? I may be way off here but could there be a case for the Tower of Babel being, somehow, a distorted legend about it? Thanks.

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traques Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: ottawa Posts: 78	Nah, the temple was far greater. :notworthy: TBH, maybe they didnt know about the pyramids, because they were never there. Some people say the exodus never happened at least.

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Kosh Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Orions Belt Posts: 3,911	The Israelites were unable to make the pyramid building due a scheduling conflict... According to the Bible, when the Great Pyramid was being built, the Israelites (or their supposed ancestor) were floating around a flooded planet on a ship made out of gopherwood.

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