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Pap. Our oldest fragments of the Torah - which includes the exodus bullshit story - are from the Greek Septuagint and date from the 3d century BC. The earliest Hebrew texts are the Dead Sea Scrolls which date from the mid 2d century BC at the earliest and a significant portion of those are in Greek and Aramaic anyway.
Frankly, that sounds like a "Hail Mary" to use a particularly unsuitable analogy for an atheist board! Translating stuff into Hebrew from Greek and then claiming that it is "early" seems like a real stretch.
Some of the anachronisms in the Exodus story are:
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The late origins of the Exodus story are evident also in a number of anachronisms which characterise it. For example, Pharaoh's fear that the Israelites might ally themselves with foreign invaders makes little sense in the context of the New Kingdom, when Canaan was part of an Egyptian empire and Egypt faced no enemies in that direction, but does make sense in a 1st millennium context, when Egypt was considerably weaker and faced invasion first from the Persians and later from Seleucid Syria.[26] Other anachronisms point to a period in the mid-1st millennium: Ezion-Geber, (one of the Stations of the Exodus), for example, dates to a period between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE with possible further occupation into the 4th century BCE,[27] while the place-names on the Exodus route which can be identified - Goshen, Pithom, Succoth, Ramesses and Kadesh Barnea - point to the geography of the 1st millennium rather than the 2nd.[28]
The quote above is from Wiki but it cites John Van Seters "Geography of the Exodus."
