(September 28, 2012 at 2:40 am)Polaris Wrote: Actually there was that type of slavery in the late Bronze Age in Egypt especially as Egypt was victorious in military campaigns.
You don't know much about Ancient Egypt, do you?
They did not even have a word for "slave."
The bulk of the Egyptian population was more akin to serfs, tied to the land and occasionally called upon for military service or labor on construction projects in a corvee system.
I'm afraid that your bible's notion of "slavery" is another of those anachronisms which helps us date it to later in the first millenium. There is no evidence for any mass hebrew slavery anywhere in Egypt. Zero. Cecil B. DeMille was not an Egyptologist.
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Quote:While Biblical tradition (and an number of Hollywood productions) hold that the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt, there is no clearcut contemporary evidence of this in Egypt. Certainly, people from that region were captured and taken to Egypt as war captives and probably became slaves, but the extent to which they were allowed to maintain ethnic/religious groupings is not entirely clear. Nor are their records of "Hebrews" or "Israelites" as slaves during the times during which it is usually assumed they would have been there.
The Egyptians were not the Romans or even Greeks. They did not send colonies of their own citizens to captured lands which required them to dispossess those living on those lands.
