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What do you think is the basis of the story for it? Based partly on a handful of events that were altered over time to create what we have today? Based on truth, that might have been exaggerated in scope as time went on? Based on actual literal truth? Based on a post exlic 'jewish' religious hierarchy looking to relate their experiences in babylon to something in the past?
And yes I am aware I made a post like this in the past, but I thought it would be nice to restart the thread, since we have new people on this board now .
I'm inclined to think that there's a grain of truth somewhere in it, rather than it being a complete fabrication. However, with no archaeological evidence and very little in the way of other accounts (the only one I can think of is Manetho, writing nearly a millennia and a half after the supposed date, who wrote an account of an Egyptian priest leading a band of lepers into Canaan) to support it, and a significant number of historical problems with the narrative, it's impossible to factually back up any claims about it's authenticity.
I think it's worth noting as well that writers from antiquity tend to not actually properly estimate numbers, rather they give numbers intended to impress readers the scale of an event. Most records of famous battles, for example, claim hundreds of thousands of participants, even though such numbers are often impossible, given the populations of the combatant nations. I suspect the claimed 600,000 migrants claimed in Exodus follows a similar trend.
What do you think is the basis of the story for it? Based partly on a handful of events that were altered over time to create what we have today? Based on truth, that might have been exaggerated in scope as time went on? Based on actual literal truth? Based on a post exlic 'jewish' religious hierarchy looking to relate their experiences in babylon to something in the past?
The basis for it? It was a narrative of what happened. What else?
The basis for it? It was a narrative of what happened. What else?
It never happened....Mainstream history and archaeology now consider the Exodus never happened, and the story is an entirely fictional narrative put together between the 8th and 5th centuries BCE.
It never happened....Mainstream history and archaeology now consider the Exodus never happened, and the story is an entirely fictional narrative put together between the 8th and 5th centuries BCE.
According to modern history and archaeology, the Hittites never existed. Until they found proof of them. Pardon me if I disagree with you.
Over 100 years ago is modern?
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