text: MSW - thank you; appreciated this.  Puts a new light on *salvation history*.
  
  Planning a joint ecumenical project with a neighboring Lutheran parish for the week of Christian Unity in January and one focus is social action and what Luther said and did about that.
  
  Please ignore the typical off track comment about the story of Moses - geez, how some folks just have to nit pick to show us how smart they are - and what a *literal* scriptural knee jerk comment that really says nothing about this post or speaker.
  
  We typically read scripture and especially the Torah *contextually* - we look for meaning not Torah as a geography or anthropology book.  Those stories are our joint heritage - they are our founding *myths* in an appropriate understanding.
  
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/moses-exodus.html
  
  Key - We can see the Moses narratives as the products of a period of trauma;   no one individual could possibly have done all that. So the tales are a kind of aggrandizement.