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: inversion
My response to Jessica L Scott (Israelite origins, the Saraswati river, «watchers», etc.)
Posting a copy of my latest response to Jessica L Scott here, since I think it contains some important clarifications: Thank you for your response, Jessica. I am glad to see that you were not offended by what I said, and that we seem to be on more or the less same page when it…
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 