Start your own thread as I have no patience for TROLLS, there are many different dates addressed and thoroughly debunked by the author throughout the book.Mental flatliner wrote:This is a false claim.Maximos wrote:"The exodus from Egypt is unknown to history save what is written in the Hebrew Bible. Outside of the most meager of circumstantial evidence we possess nothing to substantiate the text."
I have evidence for several dozen events before, during and after the Exodus demonstrating that it's unreasonable to dismiss the event.
The reason why people think it didn't happen is because they place the event in the 13th century in error, when the Bible places the event 300 years earlier. If you look in the right place, you'll find what you need.
And feel free to take it up with Dr. Oblath and many others:
"...After a century of exhaustive investigation, all respectable archaeologists have given up hope of recovering any context that would make Abraham, Isaac or Jacob credible ‘historical figures.’... [A]rchaeological investigation of Moses and the Exodus has similarly been discarded as a fruitless pursuit. Indeed, the overwhelming archaeological evidence today of largely indigenous origins for early Israel leaves no room for an exodus from Egypt or a 40-year pilgrimage through the Sinai wilderness. A Moses-like figure may have existed somewhere in the southern Transjordan in the mid-late 13th century B.C., where many scholars think the biblical traditions concerning the god Yahweh arose. But archaeology can do nothing to confirm such a figure as a historical personage, much less prove that he was the founder of the later Israelite religion."
- Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver, page 75, quote from Dr. Dever
The "13th century B.C." claims are thoroughly debunked in the book!
"The exodus from Egypt is unknown to history save what is written in the Hebrew Bible. Outside of the most meager of circumstantial evidence we possess nothing to substantiate the text."
- Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver, page 75, quote from Dr. Oblath
"No direct evidence [of] the Israelite sojourn in Egypt and the Exodus can be extracted from archaeology."
- Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver, page 75, quote from Dr. Finkelstein
"...the early date of Pentateuchal sources according to the Documentary Hypothesis is entirely lacking in external corroboration, since archaeological evidence, including an analysis of written finds in Judea and at Elephantine, does not support the existence of any written Pentateuchal materials prior to the third century BCE."
- Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver, page 25, quote from Russell Gmirkin
- Evidence for Moses and the Exodus?