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The Myth of an Exodus Exposed:

A. By the Bibles own chronology, the year of the Exodus fell during Egypt’s heyday under the 18 Dynasty during the imperium of the puissant Thutmosis III (1490-1436 BCE). It is simply impossible - as so many have said - that the Hebrew slaves attained liberation at the very apex of Egyptian power.

B. The absence of any recognizable Israelites in the Amarna letters, tablets which describe in detail the conditions in 14 century BCE Canaan (See William Moran, The Amarna Letters , John Hopkins Press, 1992).

C. Most scholars would place Israelite origins in the late 13 century BCE or the beginning of the Iron Age where we fine hundreds of new settlements in the hilly Israelite heartland (Israel Finkelstein, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred ). From exactly the same period, Pharaoh Merneptah’s victory stele boasts of his “eradication” of a group called “Israel” (see Ancient near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, pp 376 -378).

D. A greater problem is that the new highland settlements in Canaan from the 13 – 12 centuries BCE show very little connection with Egyptian material culture. Similarly, the Hebrew language is a purely Canaanite dialect with only Egyptian borrowings of trade words such as found throughout the Near East (see Thomas Lambdin, Egyptian Loan Words in the Old Testament and Muchiki, Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic). Much more Egyptian words and culture should be present in the highlands of Canaan if the Israelite did indeed spent 400 years living in Egypt and then resettled in Canaan .

E. Another problem is the Bible’s complete silence on the Egyptian forays into Syria-Palestine in the late 13 to early 12 centuries BCE under Merneptah and Ramses III. Had the Israelites completely forgotten these inconvenient facts?

F. Even if we re-date the Exodus in favor of a conquest in the
early Iron Age , our problems still remain. All the cities the Bible cites as being present during the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites (Kadesh Barnea, Gibeon, Heshbon and Dibon along with the kingdoms of Moab and Edon) did not exist until well into the later Iron Age (William Dever, Who Were the Israelites and Where did They Come From?) The same problem is evident in Joshua’s purported conquest; virtually none of the cities he is said to have conquered shows any evidence of any occupation for the appropriate period. (Dever, 37-71) .

G. While the Biblical Book of Exodus claims that the Israelites left Egypt at about 2 million strong (Numbers 1:46 gives a more precise total of 603,550. The 600,000, plus wives, children, the elderly, and the "mixed multitude" of non-Israelites would have numbered some 2 million people) and wondered in the Sinai Wilderness 40 years, archeologists have found no settlements or any other artifacts to support this story (William Dever, Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research ).

H. One excellent example is the series (now on Youtube) The Bible Unearthed 2. The Exodus.

Those who accept the Biblical Exodus as a factual historical event will do themselves an educational favor to watch this video, especially the video's 20 – 28 minute mark as the Exodus is discussed by one of the foremost experts in Egyptology, Donald B. Redford

Any Christian who wants to reject such facts MUST deal with William H. C. Propp’s 2 volume commentary on Exodus in “ The Anchor Bible” series.

Propp’s final conclusion: The Exodus story is a Romantic myth based on fantasy (see: The Historicity of the Exodus from Egypt , vol. 2, pp. 735 -756).

These atheists again?

can't they see exodus story is an allegory? same way they can't see Jesus used a portal to fly to heaven, that portal is now defunct

how dare you try to invalidate a story I inspired cavemen to write?
I shall burn you forever in eternal furnace for this

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YahwehTheGod:
how dare you try to invalidate a story I inspired cavemen to write?

I shall burn you forever in eternal furnace for this

Because I love the smell Of Suya

hopefulLandlord:
These atheists again?

can't they see exodus story is an allegory? same way they can't see Jesus used a portal to fly to heaven, that portal is now defunct

Where is our start trek evangelist?

Lmao
The goat herders had a dream
That they would fukk the land of Egypt up
More like a daydream

jonbellion:
Lmao
The goat herders had a dream
That they would fukk the land of Egypt up
More like a daydream

Well packaged fiction.

Just presenting the apologists on NL, a thorny gift for the christmatse.

The Bible God always sounded like a disgruntled person...
"I will destroy... I will wipe-out... I will make desolate... I will kill... I will burn down... I will strike... I will bring death... I will... I.... I..."

And some still think these are godly attributes.

Mandela had a better philosophy.

ScepticalPyrrho:
The Bible God always sounded like a disgruntled person...
"I will destroy... I will wipe-out... I will make desolate... I will kill... I will burn down... I will strike... I will bring death... I will... I.... I..."


And some thinks this are godly attributes.

Mandela had a better philosophy.

ooh sh*t....

jonbellion:
ooh sh*t....

LOL

jonbellion:
Lmao
The goat herders had a dream
That they would fukk the land of Egypt up
More like a daydream

And the God-father of modern atheism also had a dream which he past on to his deluded followers;

Richard Dawkins, in his tacit endorsement of what is popularly known as the ‘Christ myth’–the conception that Jesus did not even exist at all, not even as a person walking the earth (much less as the incarnate Son of God). Even though later Dawkins admitted, after examining medical proofs of miraculous healings that the work in the Holy Scoan Church is verifiable evidence for the existence of Christ.

In Dawkins flawed book, The God Delusion, for example, Dawkins says that it is ‘possible to mount a serious, though not widely supported, historical case that Jesus never lived at all’ and appeals to the work of G. A. Wells.

Dawkins also made an appearance in a 2006 film titled The God Who Wasn’t There, created by apostate Brian Flemming. The God Who Wasn’t There argued vociferously for the ‘Christ myth,’ including the even more absurd proposition that Jesus’ life story was derived from accounts of pagan deities.4 While Dawkins did not address the existence of Jesus in the film, that he even appeared in it amounts to him giving the film and its main ideas credibility. And he praised it warmly in The God Delusion, despite its crass errors.

It is not acceptable in science to say, maybe, probably, I assume, it could be etc. But see how scientist, Richard Dawkins speaks about very serious issues ;

In his book, The God Delusion, Dawkins says that Jesus ‘probably existed’ and leaves it at that. Nevertheless, that he even grants the Christ myth a semblance of credibility reveals a certain ironic hypocrisy in his criticism of creationists

akintom:
Just presenting the apologists on NL, a thorny gift for the christmatse.

Richard Dawkins will proud of your "thorny gift".

Dawkins says the key atheism-inducing event was ‘really when I discovered Darwinism’. [And he’s not the only one to have unfortunately (and erroneously) been so influenced.

Dawkins, sitting next to the eloquently-spoken McGrath, and under some pressure from interviewer Ms Hunniford’s challenge that Dawkins had ‘no proof’ to justify his ‘there is no God’ stance, in his following comments Dawkins—though still clinging to his belief in a self-creating universe—appears to forget his past outspoken disdain for the concept of an Intelligent Designer:

Dawkins foolishly says ‘You can’t prove the non-existence of anything, so it’s impossible to prove that God doesn’t exist. …

Is it any wonder that Richard Dawkins is out producing a dark satanic induced belief system that is evident world wide as we speak.

cc winer01

ScienceWatch:
Richard Dawkins will proud of your "thorny gift".

Dawkins says the key atheism-inducing event was ‘really when I discovered Darwinism’. [And he’s not the only one to have unfortunately (and erroneously) been so influenced.

Dawkins, sitting next to the eloquently-spoken McGrath, and under some pressure from interviewer Ms Hunniford’s challenge that Dawkins had ‘no proof’ to justify his ‘there is no God’ stance, in his following comments Dawkins—though still clinging to his belief in a self-creating universe—appears to forget his past outspoken disdain for the concept of an Intelligent Designer:

Dawkins foolishly says ‘You can’t prove the non-existence of anything, so it’s impossible to prove that God doesn’t exist. …

Is it any wonder that Richard Dawkins is out producing a dark satanic induced belief system that is evident world wide as we speak.

cc winer01

who still takes this guy seriously?