Karlheinz Koinegg, Moses und die Wüste der Wunder, 1.28-1.39; Ich weiß was, "Albert E. erklärt Religionen", 0:00-24:00.
Today we started stories about the Israelites entering the promised land. I prefaced these stories by mentioning that whereas up until now the Israelites had been the victims of other people's violence, now things were different because they themselves were also using violence and others were also victims. Whereas before the Israelites were being killed and enslaved, now they were also killing and enslaving people, and just because the Beginner's Bible doesn't show this, for example with the battle of Jericho ...
... we shouldn't think it didn't happen.
When we moved on to stories from Judges, J made a good connection. When the text described how the Israelites stopped believing in God and obeying his rules and that God started punishing them, he said that it was just like what happened in the story of the ark.
He especially enjoyed the story of Gideon and the wool:
In the Moses audiobook there was an interesting scene where Moses is debating with his old teacher, an Egyptian priest. Moses says the following about why his God is punishing the Egyptians with the plagues:
"Gott bestraft euch nicht weil ihr nicht an ihn glaubt. Er straft euch weil ihr uns nicht an ihn glauben laßt."
(God is not punishing you for not believing in him; he's punishing you for not letting us believe in him.)
There is another interesting take on biblical material in this section. Instead of suggesting that the despoiling of the Egyptians is something that God helps bring about (Exodus 35-36), this story makes it into the plan of a Hebrew character, Samiri, a very shady, opportunistic, double-dealing character who throughout the story is Moses' adversary. Other Hebrews accuse Samiri of engaging in theft. I'm not yet sure how this episode will play out. Samiri does defend his actions by saying that he only seeks payment for all the unpaid slave labor the Hebrews have performed for the Egyptians. J and I have been pausing the story at the Samiri episodes and wondering whether he "is good or bad or a mixture of both."
The Albert E. audiobook is very good, as usual. The section today included discussions (among a number of children) of Buddhism and Hinduism.
Total audio 2015: 12.15
Total video 2015: 14.00
Age 5.3.30
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