Is the Holy Spirit Misleading You?

[Jehanne]

No scholar believes that the Hebrews were ever enslaved in Egypt.  If you know of one, please post the citation here.

I don't know of any.  Of course, none believed that King David existed until recently either, but we have now discovered that a King David did exist back then.  We have limited historical evidence from those times and are learning more through archaeological discoveries as time goes on. As far as I'm concerned the book is still open on the exodus, but at the same time, I'm not naive enough to believe that the bible events are blow by blow historical accounts.  I don't think that is its purpose.

I don't know of any scholars, certainly, a majority, who ever denied the existence of King David.  But, your abandoning of Biblical historicity is certainly a rupture with traditional Christian thought, which held the Bible to be completely historical.

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No scholar believes that the Hebrews were ever enslaved in Egypt.  If you know of one, please post the citation here.

When discussing biblical events be sure to consider actual history.  Remember, Egypt was much larger than it is now.  The Egyptian Empire included the Levant area all the way to the Tigris River.  So even if the Hebrews were in the Levant and never actually in modern-day Egyptian territory they were in Egypt.

No evidence, though, that the Hebrews worked as slaves for the Egyptians.  In fact, it is know widely recognized that the pyramids were built by paid laborers who were organized into work groups who took pride and ownership in their contributions to the pyramid that they built.