![]() Tacitus continues: “In order to secure the allegiance of his people in the future, Moses prescribed for them a novel religion quite different from those of the rest of mankind (One God versus many gods). The walls came a-tumblin’ down, Hallelujah.” Mahalia Jackson singing “Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho”ĬLICK HERE to watch the 2 minute video (1.3 million views) Tacitus: “They traveled on for six days without a break, and on the seventh they expelled the previous inhabitants of Canaan (Joshua 6), took over their lands and in them built a holy city and temple.”Īfrican-American slaves composed Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho in the 1800’s: ![]() This relieved their thirst.”Įxodus 17:5,6 “Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go, Behold I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.’ And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.” Fresco in Catacomb of Callixtus of Moses Striking Rock, 300’s AD Moses followed them and was able to bring to light a number of abundant channels of water whose presence he had deduced from a grassy patch of ground. But exhaustion set in, chiefly through lack of water, and the level plain was already strewn with the bodies of those who had collapsed and were at their last gasp when a herd of wild asses left their pasture and made for the spade of a wooded crag. They agreed, and started off at random into the unknown. But one of them, who was called Moses, (Exodus 12) urged his companions not to wait passively for help from god or man, for both had deserted them: he said they should trust to their own initiative and to whatever guidance first helped them to extricate themselves from their present plight. Here the exiles tearfully resigned themselves to their fate. ![]() Tacitus continues: “Thus a multitude of sufferers was rounded up, herded together, and abandoned in the wilderness. So pharaoh Bocchoris went to the oracle of Hammon (Ammon) to ask for a cure, and was told to purify his kingdom by expelling the victims to other lands, as they lay under a divine curse.”Įxodus 12:31,32 “During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. The whole of Egypt was once plagued by a wasting disease which caused bodily disfigurement. Tacitus begins: “Most authorities, however, agree on the following account. In his book entitled Histories, Tacitus details the history of the Exodus as a factual event and of Moses as the leader of the Jews: 56 AD – 117 AD) was considered one of the greatest historians of the ancient Roman Empire. Cornelius Tacitus 1598 edition of Tacitus’ worksĬornelius Tacitus (c.
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