Today I would like to call your attention to what Yosef ben Matiyahu, the Jewish or Israelite priest and military leader who was granted Roman citizenship and adopted the name Titus Flavius Josephus in 69 A.D., and who then went on to become one of the most important writers and historians of antiquity, actually said…
Stikkord: exodus
Eyewitness to Revolution: When the «Israel» of Real History Invaded and Subdued Egypt
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,…
The Collapse of an Ancient Civilization – an Eyewitness Account (?)
Video presentations and documentaries dealing with the decline and fall of various civilizations and societies of the distant past have been garnering surprisingly large numbers of views on platforms like YouTube for some time now. I say surprising because history has often been viewed by the general populace as an eminently boring topic, and because…
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),…