The above reminds me of the classic paradox at the heart of mathematics, which led to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem:It's definitely a parable. There are both stories that are purely parable, and also some accounts of events that are also parables.
Really every story in the Old Testament is a parable, only in the text because it helps us learn something about human nature and so on.
For this story though, there's no way to determine by physical evidence whether or not the actual account in the text is purely parable or instead includes some real events!
Why can't we find out by physical evidence?
According to the actual account in the text, their shoes and clothing did not wear out in 40 years -- ergo, nothing would wear out....
Therefore, so far as the text is concerned, the story indicates no items would be discarded for us to be able to find or expect to find later.
Also in the text, typically they would have no time to find secure places to bury their dead, so that means the bodies would be left on the surface or buried very shallow and fast, for scavengers to find...
Ergo, nothing would remain to be found later.
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That is, is the statement: 'This statement is false', a true statement?
If you can dismiss the Exodus as being a mere parable, are you saying that the Exodus is false, or is the Exodus true?
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