After a few miles in the desert, I bet there'd be quite a chorus of STFU.
Either that, or they'd be holding up their lighters and shouting "Freebird!"
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
What are you talking about? The exodus happened 400 years after the death of Joseph.
The scene when they're leaving, and those guys are taking Joseph's bones out of Egypt. They're all singing. And they're singing the same thing over and over again. And over again.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
That's an old Jewish chant that Elmer Bernstein adapted for the film.
shareYeah, and they were chanting it all the way from the Nile to the Red Sea. That would have been massively annoying.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
I think maybe it was a different Joseph?
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was it Joseph or Joshua? i'm thinking it was the latter?
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No, it was Joseph, the guy with the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
shareTwas Joseph's mummy. Toward the end of Genesis, Joseph's coronation as Grand Vizier is mentioned (in historically accurate detail), as well as his mummification (also accurately described in the Bible) and burial in Egypt. participants in the Exodus removed his body from his tomb and reverentially brought it with them to re-bury "in his own land". That's what the chant and all the ceremony was about in the picture.
shareNo, it was about THE Joseph, son of Jacob and at one time a high official in Egypt, whose remains they were taking out of Egypt and to their destination in the promised land.
Here are the lyrics, so you can get them stuck in your head all over again:
Jacob cherished his son Joseph,
Many colors was his coat.
God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Ever bless us with Thy hand...
Well ... I expect they took a few goat's milk breaks when their 12th century BC cameras weren't filming.
shareThe Exodus was in 1606 BC
http://mithrandironchronology.blogspot.com/2015/10/tetra-scroll-chronology.html
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shareAfter a few miles in the desert, I bet there'd be quite a chorus of STFU.
Either that, or they'd be holding up their lighters and shouting "Freebird!"
I know we heard the same bit twice in the film but I assumed it was a reference to the stories of the Hebrews being preserved in oral tradition... So I figure they had more songs, even the guys who were bearing the remains of Joseph must have had other songs in their repertoire...
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