Instead of Moses getting the Israelites to leave Egypt, he leads a sucsesful Jewish Revolt, and Egypt is Jewish from the Nile Delta to the First Cataract. What happens next?
(btw, 1000th post!)
(btw, 1000th post!)
ASB. The 'Exodus' never happened in the first place.
Instead of Moses getting the Israelites to leave Egypt, he leads a sucsesful Jewish Revolt, and Egypt is Jewish from the Nile Delta to the First Cataract. What happens next?
(btw, 1000th post!)
ASB. The 'Exodus' never happened in the first place.
congrats on teh 1,00th post.
though, I think the Hyksos (who really did conquer Egypt for at least one dynasty-length of time) were Semitic.
So were the Egyptians.
You are well aware that the Egyptians regarded the Hyskos as being foreign and the term most used today to describe them was "Semitic".
I have seen some hypothesis that the events of the Exodus era were deliberately written out of Egyptian history.
You are well aware that the Egyptians regarded the Hyskos as being foreign and the term most used today to describe them was "Semitic".
I have seen some hypothesis that the events of the Exodus era were deliberately written out of Egyptian history.
I think, at best, the Old testament is a heavily metaphorical and exaggerted text....And the term used to describe the Egyptian and Arabic races is also 'Semitic'. And sure the Hyksos were considered 'foreign'. So what? Athenians considered Thebians foreign, but they were all still Mediterranean Europeans.
An event that large would be effectively impossible to write out of history, considering that all of Egyptian history is accounted for. Besides, why would Egypt write out this event? They were perfectly willing to set down defeats against Hittites, Nubians, occupations by the same, revolts, etc, so why would this one slave revolt merit censuring?
Archeology doesn't help either. Despite Exodus claiming 600,000 Jews leaving Egypt, not one camp site has been found.
Well, if he means that it never took place as it is recorded in the OT, then he's right. A much less dramatic version may still have happened, I'll leave the last word to the archeologists about that.Congratulations! You win the "I Can Start a Flamewar!" award for this thread.