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Evisceration of the Exodus myth
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RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth
(August 9, 2015 at 9:58 pm)Lek Wrote: Seems like archaeologists are coming up with more circumstantial evidence over time to support the bible stories.  I found the article below, as well as others.  I'm not ready to write off the old testament as myth.

  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1998...ta044.html

From your link:

Quote:Answering these skeptics, however, is not always so easy as one might expect. The fact is that not one shred of direct archaeological evidence has been found for Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob or the 400-plus years the children of Israel sojourned in Egypt. The same is true for their miraculous exodus from slavery. And remember those reassuring Sunday-school stories about archaeologists finding Jericho's walls lying outward just as the Book of Joshua suggests they fell? It turns out that the most respected archaeologist ...


Maybe the article goes on to supply some circumstantial evidence but the free read portion ends where my quote does.  Might you give us a little of that circumstantial evidence?

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Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by goodwithoutgod - August 2, 2015 at 7:06 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by CapnAwesome - August 2, 2015 at 7:43 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Ravenshire - August 2, 2015 at 8:01 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by CapnAwesome - August 2, 2015 at 8:04 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Minimalist - August 2, 2015 at 8:14 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Ravenshire - August 2, 2015 at 8:36 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Minimalist - August 2, 2015 at 8:37 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by goodwithoutgod - August 2, 2015 at 8:40 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Chad32 - August 2, 2015 at 8:39 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Lek - August 9, 2015 at 9:58 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Jenny A - August 9, 2015 at 10:23 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by abaris - August 10, 2015 at 4:30 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Minimalist - August 9, 2015 at 10:08 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Lek - August 9, 2015 at 10:21 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Jenny A - August 9, 2015 at 10:25 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by pgrimes15 - August 9, 2015 at 11:49 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Minimalist - August 9, 2015 at 11:22 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Wyrd of Gawd - August 10, 2015 at 8:53 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by goodwithoutgod - October 11, 2015 at 9:53 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by TheRocketSurgeon - October 11, 2015 at 10:26 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Minimalist - October 11, 2015 at 11:35 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by robvalue - October 11, 2015 at 12:21 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by TheRocketSurgeon - October 11, 2015 at 1:19 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by robvalue - October 11, 2015 at 1:31 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Jackalope - October 11, 2015 at 11:39 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by TheRocketSurgeon - October 12, 2015 at 12:14 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by robvalue - October 12, 2015 at 3:18 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by SofaKingHigh - October 12, 2015 at 6:18 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Wyrd of Gawd - October 11, 2015 at 11:04 pm
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Cecelia - October 12, 2015 at 12:58 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by TheRocketSurgeon - October 12, 2015 at 1:13 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by The Grand Nudger - October 12, 2015 at 6:48 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Crossless1 - October 12, 2015 at 11:12 am
RE: Evisceration of the Exodus myth - by Minimalist - October 12, 2015 at 11:56 am

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