Why Write This?

Preface II

[Ebal, two of thirty]

For one, this story enthralls me.

This is my second post of a memorandum about the Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet.

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While it is set in this galaxy, even this planet, this adventure starts a long, long time ago, far before Caesar, Hannibal, or Alexander. Consider that ghostly Homer spun his supernatural-laced tales of a time half a millennium before his days. Yet, our saga begins a century, if not three, before Achilles’ epic feats, the Battle of Troy, and Odysseus’ journey home.

Plus, it is a story about writing by people thought to be unable to do so. By that I mean unable to write in a way that you or I would find understandable without extensive scholarly training in things like hieroglyphics or cuneiform. No, this is writing that, after only a short alphabet and vocabulary lesson, you can read—read as if it were a news feed on whatever device from which you usually get such.

Well, I have to walk that back a bit. We would have to account for the boustrophedon track. Some ambiguity that adds to the message without necessarily blurring its gist. I will explain this later.

Nevertheless, this story is about us actually reading the thoughts recorded by the hand of someone who lived around 3500 years ago.

But it goes beyond that. Fantastically, the thoughts related seem to detail events and personages we know, ones believed by many to be the stuff of mythology, that is, Moses, Joshua, and the Hebrews of the Conquest.

Yet, beyond my interest, there is another, more compelling reason for my writing. 

It is this: A tragedy impends. Of such, I needed to alert and offer aid to avoid.

Later I explain this further.

Now, a question: What things would you like to learn from a news feed from thirty-five hundred years ago? Let me know in your comments.

Thank you for engaging this topic with me thus far!

In our next post, we address “Why the Fuss?”

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