'Poetic Literature: the 10 Plagues\r'

'deity in this time period and now is a very(prenominal) powerful being. He has the knowledge of what is good and what is evil. Pharaoh in the concur of Exodus tests matinee idol’s intentness and power by continuing to deceive him as head as Moses, and Aaron. In this paper I plan to comp ar and contrast the ten annoyances in the bible, Exodus 7:14-12:36 with psalms 78:44-51 and cv:28-36 as well as apologize how the authors of each psalm view the story of the plagues. In Exodus, it speaks about how the Pharaoh is unyielding to letting the Egyptian slaves go free so that they can worship to theology.\r\nGod initiall(a)y had send Moses, who was made want God to the Pharaoh, and Aaron, Moses’ prophet, to warn Pharaoh to let God’s heap go. Each and every time this request was asked of Pharaoh, he would lie about freeing his slaves, then, harden his amount and change his mind. This made God very uncivilized and this is how the plagues began. The first plagu e started with the River Nile being turned into livestock. This was God’s initial idea of getting Pharaoh to do what he wants and by removing the source of water would for certain get his attention.\r\nHowever, that was non the case and the Pharaoh’s nerve hardened. This pattern between God, Moses, Aaron, and the Pharaoh continued throughout night club more plagues after the first. The plagues that occurred after the Nile River turning into blood were frogs, gnats, flies, livestock/pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and finally the death of the first born(p)(p) of every living being and animal in Egypt. The final plague is what we now know as Passover. I noticed in the first sing account of the ten plagues (Ps. 78:44-51), unless vii of the ten plagues were menti mavind.\r\nIt started with turning the river into blood, followed by a brood of flies, frogs, then locusts, hail, the killing of livestock, and finally the killing of the firstborn of every human and animal of Egypt. This psalm only has eight stanzas and if you notice the plagues are not in the same order as the ones in the book of Exodus. Instead of using the paroles gnats (used in Exodus) that word is replaced with caterpillars. The plagues of boils and darkness were not used in this psalm also. Psalms 78:44-51 is of a Yahwistic narrative. God seems corresponding a parental figure so to speak.\r\nIt seems like it is just punishment because of the Pharaoh’s ignorance and his follower’s obliviousness. Like parents with children if one child messes up, the other siblings run for to feel part of the punishment as well and this is what I feel happened to the people of Egypt. The Yahwist tradition fundamentally explains the relationship between God and man and to dedicate sin and how man should be like God. Also, there is a level of communication that shows the relationship between human beings and God; a level of denseness and relationship growth.\r\nI n the second account of the plagues in Psalm 105:28-36, this too is not in the same order as the ones in Exodus. It starts mutilate with God sending darkness over the gain then turning the river into blood, followed by a hatch of frogs, flies, gnats, hail, livestock, locusts, and again ending with the killing of the first born of every human and animal in Egypt. This Psalm has nine stanzas and this time boils was the only plague not used. To compare to the plagues in Exodus there is one way communication to show that God is all powerful and we are to never think that we are greater than him.\r\nFor example, In Ex. 7:6, God directs Moses and Aaron to mob a message to the Pharaoh and they did just as the schoolmaster asked. Psalms 105:28-36 is written in a priestly fashion. The priestly narrative speaks on how choleric God was and says that he did not spare anyone’s lives and left them all in the hands of the plague and the company of the destroying angels. It makes it se em like God in this psalm is mean with no remorse for anyone †nut like. To conclude, I feel that historical accuracy is as important to ancient writers as well as the readers who choose to read their script.\r\nIn the case of the plagues and the both psalm accounts relating to them, I think the reason why Ex. 7:14-12:36 and the two Ps. 78:44-51 and 105:28-36, are not in agreement in terms of order and number is because they were written by two authors with contrary views. I think that creating different versions of the same story is not a major(ip) problem for the biblical editors because it is nice to read a story and have the opportunity to see it in two different perspectives so that you can operate your own conclusion.\r\n'