(March 14, 2016 at 10:49 am)dyresand Wrote:(March 14, 2016 at 10:10 am)Drich Wrote: The Jew while in egypt were not known as Jews. Why? Because they were known as egyptians. when Joseph's family was welcomed into egypt they were not a nation of people. they were one large family that was allowed to settled in the 'goshen' region of egypt. In this region several cities and hundreds of smaller villages were found and some have been excavated. In the rubble of these cities and in the graves Semitic items and Semitic burials prove these cities were not typical egyptian. All of this attributed to the late and the end of the middle kingdom. Even Egyptian documentation does indeed proove or show is a list of named slaves with specifically jewish names.
Where you like it or not whether you wish to continue believing and spreading this particular lie or not, know in the back of your mind not only do the jews in the bible confirm an egyptian captivity but their is period correct confirmed Egyptian papyrus that also show Jewish slaves along with, archaeological evidence.
And better yet for you someone has compiled all of this information and a whole heck of alot more into your favorite format explaining all of this in a documentary form. taking you to the dig sites, showing you the actual papyrus, having museum curators tell you what is on said papyrus and various monuments.
There was no Jews in Egypt the Jews weren't Egyptian. Egyptians aren't Jews.
The Egyptians were polytheists not monotheists. That being said Jews are monotheist.
Now we got that out of the way why would the Jews wander so far out anyways.
That would be the first lie in the OT.
If you move your family to russia and become citizens you become russian.
That is what happened here. Joseph durning the great famine in Genesis moved his family to egypt and became egyptians. They stayed but did not assimilate into the egyptian culture. That would be no different than a Syrian refugee moving to france and not becoming part of the culture. If that person become a citizen then he is considered to be a citizen of france even if he does not look like nor behave as other french people would.
The same thing happened here. The Jews/Joseph's family were nomadic semites. Meaning they did not have a country and they spoke the semetic language. Because of what Joseph did they were allowed to settle in the Goshen region of Egypt. (at the mouth of the nile delta) In genesis Everyone (including Joseph's Family) had to become property of the Pharaoh. Over a period of several hundred years the family of Joseph turned into a nation of people. Even in Egyptian records it mentions the fact that the 'desert dewellers' (Were not known as Jews yet) out numbered the native egyptians and this was cause for great concern. So the pharaoh turned them into slaves. This according to the Egyptian record.
