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Exodus is not supported by archaeology.

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The Middle Bronze Age people of Canaan (Israel) built fortified towns in Canaan. Middle Bronze Age ramparts have been described by some as Hyksos. They coincide with the Hyksos occupation of Egypt. These rampart cities may have been destroyed by Egyptian military campaigns after the Hyksos were defeated in Egypt.
https://ancient-world-project.nes.l...PALESTINE_BA_Dever-1984_Middle-Bronze-Age.pdf
 
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Historically speaking, a good many scholars would assert the psalms predated and informed the written account of Exodus, which there is a good amount of material from the psalms to work with.
Psalm 137 is about the time of the Babylonian Exile. It could not be written by David.
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”
 
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Psalm 137 is about the time of the Babylonian Exile. It could not be written by David.
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”

Stuff like this is why he is considered to be a Prophet-King. Seeing the inner life of the Holy Trinity, prophesying events concerning Christ, the Church, Israel, the Blessed Virgin, etc.
 
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Stuff like this is why he is considered to be a Prophet-King. Seeing the inner life of the Holy Trinity, prophesying events concerning Christ, the Church, Israel, the Blessed Virgin, etc.
He could not have written Nehemiah either.
 
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Seeing as how the Egyptians had a custom of not recording their defeats, but only victories, I wouldn't be surprised that they didn't keep such a humiliating event preserved in stone for 3500 years.

However I have seen a lot of evidence for the Exodus, besides the Bible. I am not sure if the Hyksos were the Hebrews but the Habiru were recorded by the Egyptians. Habiru and Hebrew are almost the same word.

I highly recommend "The Exodus Conspiracy" and "The Exodus Revealed". There is a lot of evidence of the Israelites wandering the wilderness.
 
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How many Hebrews were exiled in Egypt according to the Bible?
Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
 
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Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

That's a lot of folks. Did that many exist on earth at that time? What are the estimates?
 
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That's a lot of folks.
Sure is.

Exodus 1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
public hermit said:
Did that many exist on earth at that time?
Affirmative.
public hermit said:
What are the estimates?
Some think 2 million Hebrews left Egypt with Moses.
 
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What's stopping agenda driven scientists and archaeologists from doing the same, especially when paid by commission?
There are several possible reasons why archeology finds no evidence of the slavery of the hebrews. But this isn’t one of them. There is no reason for scientists and archeologists to not be accurate about their discoveries and hypotheses.
 
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You can't overlap the narratives.
The Hyksos were the ruling class in Egypt, the Hebrews were slaves.
There are similarities between the two as shown in this video.

The Egyptians themselves provided plenty of evidence for the Hyksos occupation.
The 19th dynasty papyrus Turin King List compiled about 300 years after the expulsion of the Hyksos recognized their kings as pharaohs of Egypt.
From this and other archaeological information the 15th dynasty was Hyksos.



The dead giveaway is the names of the pharaohs of the 15th dynasty are not Egyptian but Semitic.
 
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Thank you. Are you saying the Hyksos could have been what eventually became the Hebrews or no? I know there's disagreement on this, so I'm just asking.
 
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Thank you. Are you saying the Hyksos could have been what eventually became the Hebrews or no? I know there's disagreement on this, so I'm just asking.
They couldn't have become Hebrews.
The Hyksos that were driven out of Egypt cannot be identified as Hebrews as their religion was not monotheistic.
 
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The 2019 forensic examination of the mummy of the Seqenenre-Taa mentioned in post #1 indicated the pharaoh was not killed in battle but more likely executed by the Hyksos.
Here is the report.
CT scans of Egyptian mummy reveal new details about the death of a pivotal pharaoh
 
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They couldn't have become Hebrews.
The Hyksos that were driven out of Egypt cannot be identified as Hebrews as their religion was not monotheistic.
"Driven out of Egypt"?

Moses: Let my people go.
Pharaoh: Nope.
God: Go, and I'll shut the door behind you.

Exodus 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
 
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The biggest problem with the exedous is 3 million people fleeing, loss of the pharoh and much of his army would be impossible to hide that would disrupt egypt for years. PLUS lets not forget that canaan was under egyptian control at the time, so they be fleeing egypt into the egyptian army, wich would notice again, 3 million people going through their teritory.
 
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BUT such things would be impossible to hide. Losing millions of slaves, loss of the pharoh the army the damage as you said, that would leave a scar that be impossible to hide for years if not decades. We know when other kingdoms and such change history because stuff doesn't line up.
 
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I think over 100,000 manuscripts were lost when the library in Alexandria burned. That is just one library in Egypt. The record of the Exodus is preserved in the Bible. That is a source of evidence.

There are entire civilizations that were lost to history. There are ruins all over the world, some of massive sizes, and archaeologists don't even know who built them.

The fact that we have any evidence at all for an event from 3,500 years ago is amazing enough already. There is plenty of evidence for the Exodus if you look for it.
 
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I think over 100,000 manuscripts were lost when the library in Alexandria burned. That is just one library in Egypt. The record of the Exodus is preserved in the Bible. That is a source of evidence.

There are entire civilizations that were lost to history. There are ruins all over the world, some of massive sizes, and archaeologists don't even know who built them.

The fact that we have any evidence at all for an event from 3,500 years ago is amazing enough already. There is plenty of evidence for the Exodus if you look for it.
 
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