(August 1, 2011 at 9:53 am)Rhythm Wrote: Can you think of anything we might expect to find with say, a dig, were your interpretation correct?
Conversely, if your interpretation was not correct, would sort of evidence to the contrary could you conceive of?
A 3300 year old Bedouin gravesite in the hills north of Petra with evidence the man that been buried there was a priest of Aten would be a pretty good find. Short of that lots of things would provide further support for my argument. Egyptians were big on graffiti. “Elroy, high priest of Aten” scrawled into a cliff face at a Bedouin campsite is not out of the realm of possibility.
Seriously though, the point of my argument in this thread is not to provide proof that what I wrote is what happened. Rather my point is that it is arguable that the Exodus story might be more than a complete work of fiction. Some parts of the story could have a basis in historical fact. I’ve tried to provide an interpretation of some evidence in that light. I could lend further weight to that argument by providing more information on the details that are in the Exodus story about the Bedouin living in Edom. Details that are verifiable through non Biblical sources. However, I’m not arguing for the truth of Exodus as written so I’ve tried to avoid using those texts.
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