re: #76 goddamnedfrank

Inorite :P That’s what I wrote - none of the things in brackets are historical.
Note, however, that the absence of records about supernatural events by itself doesn’t show that there wasn’t some historical core there. What does prove that the story is an invention from scratch are 1. that the Egyptian, chronicles don’t mention any Hebrew slaves or any Hebrews (except as a people in Canaan) or anything we would expect to be mentioned if huge masses of former slaves suddenly left. 2. We also don’t have any archaeological record of this in the Sinai desert - and that’s not an argument from silence, since the desert finds include thousand years old Bedouin camps etc. - yet no trace of the alleged Exodus. 3. Finally, the Canaan conquest never happened, archaeology shows pretty gradual development of the city cultures, and where the cities were conquered/razed, it happened in different time periods, not after the alleged Exodus. Basically, Hebrews were just Canaanites.