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<\/a>Exodus: Gods and Kings by Ridley Scott<\/p><\/div>
\nRidley Scott’s new movie introduces some thinking about a standard view of Moses.<\/p>\n
Moses looked lot like Charlton Heston, or was it the other way around. The 1956 Cecil B DeMille visual extravaganza is still an eye opener and stands on its own despite remakes and other Moses wannabees. DeMille had produced a black & white silent version in the 1920’s and stills from this film are still used to illustrate events from the Exodus by Biblical publishers. Ridley Scott has taken a new track: Moses the warrior prince. The trailers show an armored fighting man and a Pharaoh in conflict. The question arises: how Egyptian was Moses and when did the Prophet emerge?<\/p>\n
Ridley Scott has made some impressive films, no dispute here. But much of the criticism against some of them include a tendency towards anachronism in the mindset of the characters. But here the question is legitimate, Moses was a prince of Egypt because Joseph had been the Grand Vizier, the second to the Pharaoh in the land of Egypt. Joseph was married to the daughter of a priest of On and had hidden a pagan divining cup in the baggage of his brothers when they journeyed to Egypt for grain. Joseph was unrecognizable to the wayward brothers because he had become an Egyptian. Wall paintings from this period in Egypt show \u201cAsiatics\u201d, Canaanites with beards, long hair and colorful tunics leading herds of goats and cows. The Egyptians were a very homogeneous group with acceptable standards of grooming and dress, clean shaven and often shorn heads, white clothes and an abhorrence of herdsmen. Joseph came into Egypt as a Canaanite slave and was transformed into a member of the Egyptian hierarchy. Prince Moses was an Egyptian through and through.<\/p>\n