Many modern academics say there is no evidence of the Israelites To be found in the archaeological record, Nor of a mass «Exodus» from Egypt, And most Biblical scholars are not even sure which century The nation of Israel may have left Egypt, BUT what if all this is «smoke and mirrors», Ignorance and dishonesty,…
Stikkord: counter-history
Reflections on the «Historicity» of the Exodus
As many are aware of, the Old Testament or the Tanakh (including the Torah) sets forth the extraordinary claim, accepted by traditional “Judaisms” and “Christianities”, that the “Israelites” spent some 400 years in Egypt – many of them as slaves. (Genesis 15:12–14 (“four hundred years”), Exodus 12:39–41 (“four hundred and thirty years”, c.f. Genesis 11:17),…
Edmund Schilvold: Skribent, fotograf, filosof, friluftsentusiast 