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9 Discoveries that proofs the EXODUS happened.





When it rains....................it surely pours!
 
What nonsense.

The Torah devotes more than four books to the proposition that the Israelites came to Canaan after having been subjugated in Egypt for generations, and yet there is no archaeological evidence to support that they were ever in Egypt. A prolonged Egyptian stay should have left Egyptian elements in the material culture, such as the pottery found in the early Israelite settlements in Canaan, but there are none.

In short, the traditions of servitude in Egypt, the tales of the Israelites wandering in the desert, and the stories of the conquest of the promised land all appear to be fictitious.

This means that the biblical traditions are allegories invented deliberately to obscure the fact that the Israelites were native to Canaan.

Were the Jews Slaves in Egypt?

The Torah devotes more than four books to the proposition that the Israelites came to Canaan after having been subjugated in Egypt for generations, and yet there is no archaeological evidence to support that they were ever in Egypt.
reformjudaism.org


The consensus of modern scholars on the historicity of the Exodus is that the Pentateuch does not give an accurate account of the origins of the Israelites, who appear instead to have formed as an entity in the central highlands of Canaan in the late second millennium BCE (around the time of the Late Bronze Age collapse) from the indigenous Canaanite culture. Most modern scholars believe that some elements in the story of the Exodus might have some historical basis, but that any such basis has little resemblance to the story told in the Pentateuch. While the majority of modern scholars date the composition of the Pentateuch to the period of the Achaemenid Empire (5th century BCE), some of the elements of this narrative are older, since allusions to the story are made by 8th-century BCE prophets such as Amos and Hosea.

The Exodus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
 
Looking for evidence 200 years in error will make one imagine that any event never happened.
 
LittleNipper said:
Looking for evidence 200 years in error will make one imagine that any event never happened.
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These are just two short citations. There is no consensus, even among religious institutions, as to when the Exodus occurred.

According to Biblical chronology, the Exodus took place in the 890th year before the destruction of the Temple by the Babylonians in 421 BCE (generally accepted date: 587 BCE).1 This was 1310 BCE (1476 BCE).
Some historians have been attracted by the name of the store-city Raamses built by the Israelites before the Exodus. They have drawn connections to the best-known Pharaoh of that name, Ramses II, or Ramses the Great, and set the Exodus around his time, roughly 1134 BCE (1300 BCE).2

When Was the Exodus? - Jewish Holidays

From the days of Josephus until the present historians have tried to find some trace of the Exodus in the ancient records of Egypt. They've had little luck.
www.ou.org

There are other dates as well. They've looked everywhere and everywhen. It didn't happen.
 
One problem is the 40 year journey……to take 40 years would mean that it would require traveling about 8 miles a year….seems like even under the worst of circumstances it should have taken much less time…..
 
AFTER their deliverance from Egypt, Israel wandered for 40 years in Sinai, much of the time far away from well-traveled trade routes. It was a “great and fear-inspiring wilderness, with poisonous serpents and scorpions and with thirsty ground that has no water.” (De 8:15) Why were they made to undergo this ordeal?

At Mount Sinai, Jehovah assembled the Israelites after their departure from Egypt, gave them his laws through Moses, and organized them into a nation. After that they could have entered the Promised Land within a short time, but they did not. Why? Despite all that Jehovah had done for them, they failed to exercise faith and they rebelled against Moses, whom God had appointed to lead them. Choosing to believe a bad report about Canaan, the Israelites longed to be taken back to Egypt! (Nu 14:1-4) This brought Jehovah’s swift judgment: Forty years would pass before the nation would enter the Promised Land. By then, the faithless members of that generation would have died off.

The wilderness experience of Israel is a powerful warning to Christians today to avoid the snare of lack of faith.—Heb 3:7-12.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001067
 
Metanoia said:
One problem is the 40 year journey……to take 40 years would mean that it would require traveling about 8 miles a year….seems like even under the worst of circumstances it should have taken much less time…..
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GOD didn't want that generation to enter the Promised Land as a punishment for their disobedience and disbelief when they refused to enter the Promised Land originally after the report of the ten spies.
 
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