well the moral of the story is that this is a rich story about the struggle of a people in exile. this is about the jewish people in exile. this is about joseph struggling to keep his identity when he finds himself a slave in pharoh s text. when it is a story of american expect aism and ben carson pulling himself up by his boot straps we see a 21st century capitalist in a jewish text. we have to find ourselves suspicious. i have to go. have a great weekend. we ll be right back. mpowers us to achieve more. it pushes us to go further. special olympics has almost five million athletes in 170 countries. the microsoft cloud allows us to immediately be able to access information, wherever we are. information for an athlete s medical care, or information
story as a story of the jewish people in exile undergoing a human struggle that is it to be an exile. joseph is not building pyramids in the hebrew bible texts and there are many faithful who recognize, as kara has told us that the joseph narrative is separated by many centuries from the pyramids. we tell the story this way. are you wanting to say something? i would say that i think dr. carson is trying to connect imhotep with joseph. there is a text that talks about imhotep having a dream about a famine and a god tells him what to do and he wakes up and tells the king i know what to do and they fix the situation and then they build a monument as a thank you. and if you look at the aspects
of this story it lines up very well with the joseph narrative in the bible. and so, what people with a religious agenda have done is then looked at who imhotep is, third dynasty and the only structure he has left on the ground in egypt and that s the stepped pyramid. and then said if you look underground there is all these spaces where you can fill grain in. but i don t know anybody who is going to grow grain near the nile and ship it into the desert for storage. it s not a very good connection. but there is a connection between the joseph story and imhotep and the egyptian story and the biblical story and that does hold water. but to jump to them being grain silos is the probable. the problem you say that a lot of people see it and take what they want out of it. they see what they want to see. what is the moral of the story of joseph here?
when you are running for president you have to take a position on about a thousand issues and the egyptian pyramids are not usually one of them. but ben carson is defending his theory on the pyramids and what they were used for. let s talk to an egyptologist. i don t know if i have ever heard of an egyptologist. ben carson has a theory that the pyramids were built to store grain. this is from 1998. my own personal theory is that joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. but it would have to be
a narrow burial shafts and chambers and fronted them with temples that celebrated their cult for the afterlife. each has names attached to it. each is clearly connected to a particular king. there no evidence that any were used to store grain and none are hermetically sealed, either. carson is a world renowned neurosurgeon. he is not claiming to be an egyptologist. he says he believes because it is in the bible. does this match up to the stories in the bible about joseph? unfortunately it doesn t. he is not only wrestling the story of the egyptian people away from the egyptians but taking away the interpretation of the biblical text who see the