RE: 10 Commandments (remake)
April 26, 2011 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2011 at 1:29 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:the Egyptians keep excruciatingly detailed records and failed to record the Hebrews in their midst.
True enough,but they could also be rather cavalier with facts,as was common with ancient chroniclers. Historical accounts are often about flattery and reputation, as much as any kind of objective record.
Two things spring to mind:
Akenaten 'the great heretic'.Later pharaohs did everything they possibly could to obliterate his memory and his capital,Amarna.
The Battle of Kadesh: there is wonderful monument celebrating Ramses' victory in that battle. The problem is, the battle was a draw,at best.Egypt actually lost territory.
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As for the pharaoh of the alleged exodus. No one knows who he was or when the exodus occurred. I've always found that odd. I think it's reasonable to expect the name of such an important DEFEATED enemy would be recorded. However, the Torah DOES give a time line:
From wikipedia
Quote:The Seder Olam Rabbah (ca. 2nd century CE) determines the commencement of the Exodus to 2448 AM (1312 BCE). This date has become traditional in Rabbinic Judaism.[34]
In the first half of the 20th century the Exodus was dated on the basis of 1 Kings 6:1, which states that the Exodus occurred 480 years before the construction of Solomon's Temple, the the fourth year of Solomon's reign. Equating the biblical chronology with dates in history is notoriously difficult, but Edwin Thiele's widely accepted reconciliation of the reigns of the Israelite and Judahite kings would imply an Exodus around 1450 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC)
No record of old Thutty becoming drowned with his entire army.
Recent archeaological evidence has shown pretty conclusively that the pyramids were NOT built by slaves.
Although they had slaves ,Egypt was not a slave dependent society as say Rome:there was no need. There is simply no evidence that Egypt had slaves in the numbers claimed by in the book of Exodus..
I enjoyed the early novels of Christian Jaqc on Ramses the Great (they got a bit silly after that) However,Jacq is a real Egyptologist,trained at the Sorbonne. He claims the Egyptians had indentured workers rather than slaves. This included prisoners of war,who were allowed to assimilate or leave after a set period.
The Torah is largely (partly stolen) oral mythology not written its present form for at at least 500 years.
