Moses and the Management of Exodus

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Moses and the Management of Exodus

by
Alfred de Grazia



To Stephanie Neuman
"It takes a chaos
within oneself to give
birth to a shooting star."*
*(Nietzsche)

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FOREWORD
The Judaic, Christian, and Islamic religions go back to the
Exodus from Egypt of the Hebrews under the leadership of
Moses. They center upon this event and upon Moses. Ernst
Sellin, a distinguished German authority on the Old Testament,
once declared, "The ultimate and most important question for
the investigation of Israelitic-Judaic religion must inevitably be:
'Who was Moses?'"[1] Despite his own reply and
notwithstanding the hundreds of works on Moses that are
catalogued by the Library of Congress, the question has
remained unanswered.

I have found no book that deals adequately with the psychology
of Moses, and therefore have portrayed fully the workings of
his mind. No study has properly embraced Moses in his two
great capacities as a manager and scientist, and so I have
reconstructed these his qualities as well. Furthermore, the
Exodus and Wanderings, those operations that Moses directed,
are generally misunderstood, both in their particulars as Jewish
history and in their representation of what was happening
throughout the world in those days.

Part of the 3000-year misunderstanding stems from the strange
environment in which Moses lived and worked. The Exodus
was not a stroll through the desert by some truant slaves. The
Exodus occurred in an extraordinary setting of great
atmospheric and physical turbulence, a catastrophic world.
Unless we comprehend precisely the natural and social
upheavals of those days, we cannot grasp Moses. Nor can we
fathom the religion of Moses. I have introduced in every
chapter new methods of viewing the environment of the
Exodus. Meteorology and electricity are joined to chronology,
archaeology and biblical study, and all of these with
psychology, sociology and political analysis.

I have some confidence in this multidisciplinary approach, and
I hope that others will capture from its results some of the
exhilaration that I experienced in its conception and
elaboration. The very first chapter tells how a comet passed by
and the plagues struck. The second chapter describes the failed
negotiations between Moses and the Pharaoh, and the
subsequent pursuit and escape. Each subsequent chapter picks
up a critical part of the story - to explain it, to add evidence, and
to place it naturally, coherently and sympathetically into the
general scheme. In the end, the reader will perhaps have derived
the same conclusions as I have from the Old Testament account
of the most human of all experiences, the birth and
establishment of a great god.

Alfred de Grazia
Washington Square
New York City
21 June 1983
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1. Ernst Sellin, Mose und seine Bedeutung für die
Israelitisch-Jüdische Religionsgeschichte (1922).

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
I PLAGUES AND COMETS

Comets and Angels ... Cosmic Plagues ... The Destruction of
Egypt,

II THE SCENARIO OF EXODUS

High-Level Negotiations ... Why Pharaoh pursued the Hebrews
... The Organized Move ... Opening and Closing the Waters ...
Unforeseen Circumstances.

III CATASTROPHE AND DIVINE FIRES

Whose Angel?.,.The Censored Designs of Heaven ... The
Gentile Exodus ... The Horror of Red ... The Electrostatic Age
... Yahweh's Electrical Fire Conglomerate ... The Celestial First
Cause.

IV THE ARK IN ACTION

The Giant Capacitor ... Constructing the Ark ... Dangers of
Electrocution ... The Ark at Work ... The Electric Oracle ... The
Battle of Jericho ... The Ark's End ... God's Fire Gone,

V LEGENDS AND MIRACLES

Radiation Diseases ... The Burnt Offering ... Manna ... The
Electro-Chemical Factory ... The Brazen Serpent and other
Rods.

VI THE CHARISMA OF MOSES

The Love Child.. A Disliking for Hebrews ... The Meek Killer ...
The Courtly Shepherd ... Circumcision and Speech Problems ...
Scientist and Inventor ... Talking with Gods ... The Centralization
of Hallucination ... An Israelite Opinion Survey ...
Routinizing Charisma ... The Maniac Scientist.

VII THE LEVITES AND THE REVOLTS

Numbers Leaving Egypt ... Impedimenta... Technicians and
Security Police ... Blame the People ... Protests, Riots, and
Massacres... Revolt of the Golden Calf ... Korah's Rebellion ...
Freud and the Murder of Moses ... Beth Peor.

VIII THE ELECTRICAL GOD

The Name of Yahweh ... The Character of Yahweh ... Sin vs.
Science... Immortality ... Monotheism.

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX: TECHNIQUES FOR THE
ASSESSMENT OF LEGENDARY
HISTORY
The Limits of Distortion. ..Unbelieving
Theologians ... The Pragmatics of Legends.


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