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And here\u2019s another thing from Murphy on the Exodus plagues: \u201cThe Pharaoh\u2019s magicians had proudly imitated Moses\u2019 conjuring: they can turn rods into crocodiles too. But was it wise to demonstrate that they can as powerfully invoke a plague of frogs as the prophet of Yahweh? They are on automatic pilot. Locked into mimetic rivalry with Moses, the magicians lose their sense of survival.\u201d <\/p>\n
At its best, Murphy\u2019s book is identifying the broad and almost slapstick humor of the Bible (her chapter on Exodus is very good in this way), which shows that the tone of the Bible is closer to the cartoonish comedy of ancient myth and the kind of Indian myth analyzed by Levi-Strauss than to the refined and crystalline mythologies of an Edith Hamilton. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And here\u2019s another thing from Murphy on the Exodus plagues: \u201cThe Pharaoh\u2019s magicians had proudly imitated Moses\u2019 conjuring: they can turn rods into crocodiles too. But was it wise to demonstrate that they can as powerfully invoke a plague of frogs as the prophet of Yahweh? They are on automatic pilot. Locked into mimetic rivalry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-ot-exodus"],"yoast_head":"\n