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Originally posted by Nellinator
Nah, I'm gonna make you read, or alternatively let you give up.Actually, I am aware it wasn't all that bad which I somewhat addressed when I mentioned the Law mentioning that the Jews should have good will on their side. And yes, they obviously could craft things, but their history suggests that they never set up mines, they had a generation of people fed by manna and likely unskilled considering that they didn't do anything but wander for 40 years, nor had the facilities for refining copper. Smelting copper isn't a simple process and the Phillistines apparently had a monopoly on iron, making them far superior in equipment to the Israelites.
Oh, I haven't given up. And there's nothing to read, because it doesn't exist. You've done little to get your point across, which is why I asked you explain it again.
And the hair splitting over the use of metal is just ignorant on your part. It's all well and good for you to say that the Jews didn't have the means, but a huge copper producing foundry is a red herring. And producing copper is much more simple than you apparently know. Sure, it involves work, but people who were guests, slaves or pilgrims in as many lands as were the Jews, would have figured out the method. Or do you doubt the ability of "god's chosen people"?
I guess that's a redundnat question though. Since you think it took god's chosen people 40 years to walk from Egypt to Israel, you have to doubt their ability.