See it's quite interesting to me. I think that the initial point Steven Fry was trying to make (albeit somewhat jokily) was that for a religious text, the Bible - or more specifically in this instance, the Old Testament - is remarkably patriarchal or gender biased. I can't think of the proper word. But then that's really a given because those were the societal norms really. In hindsight it's a bit of an obvious statement. What I really took from it was merely that I never knew more than 5000 people were fed (supposing the story is true).
It's particularly sapid, what you say about the exodus (nearly spelt that exoddus), even 600,000 is a pretty big number of people to orchestrate down such a long journey. Shifting two million people would be insane. I don't profess to know the length or distance of the journey but if I'm correct in saying that they left Egypt entirely, they must have left a lot of people behind! :P
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Oh yeah, fair point. Maybe he was just tortured until he lost consciousness.
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