Thursday, January 19, 2012

Bricks Corroborate Accuracy of Moses' Writing

The making of bricks in the 15th-century  B.C.E. illustrates again the accuracy of the Biblical record.
Exodus 1 :14 and 5:10-14 Moses described the ancient making of bricks by the Egyptians using captive Hebrews  in the Nile River valley using clay mortar and straw is back. This account was accurate in all of its details.

 According to the International Standard Bible Encylopedia  the Israelite slaves in this case would have mixed water with this clay and then carried this to the spot where the brick maker was pouring this mixture into a mold on the ground.

When this had dried  to a consistency  where it would not run he would take this wooden mold or form away and leave the damp bricks to continue drying in the sun.

Further corroboration of both the Biblical account was found in two other sources, The first is  a wall painting of the 15th-century B.C.E. tomb of Reckhmire in Thebes illustrating the manufacture of bricks during the era covered in the Biblical account. The second is the papyrus documents from the second millennium B.C.E.  which describe the making of bricks in this way by slaves or serfs. including  the daily production quota that they  would have had to reach.

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