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Hello all! Constant lurker here. All the current discussion regarding Antigonus got me thinking. Perhaps there were others who could have been used as fodder/ inspiration for the Jesus traditions. I looked over the biblical king lists and noticed the last king of Israel: Hosea (Hoshea? Romanization ...

I wish I could remember anything else. It's infuriating. Essentially I was doing my usual idle research, parsing the usual things people like us do. I happen to think that IF any sort of thing occurred to give historical basis to the Exodus, it was more in line with the Egyptians being pushed out of...

No not that either. I'm starting to think that I dreamed it up.

No that's not it either. It's not Egyptian or Hebrew in origin.

Actually no. It's not something I had ever seen relating to the exodus. It was a levantine people praising their deity for liberating their city. Its language was reminiscent of the Song of the Sea.

Hello all! I am trying to find the name of a particular discovery that seems to have vanished. A some point last year I happened upon an article about an inscription that praised a god for a people's deliverance. It was similar to the Exodus legend except: 1- it wasn't hebrews or Israelites who made...