Quote:Are you honestly trying to say that the Jews didn't move around from one place to another?
Try to remember that I'm speaking of EVIDENCE. And we have no evidence that there were "Jews" ( as you are using the term ) until sometime after the beginning of the Persian period.
The fact that they went back and wrote a historical novel means absolutely nothing. Scarlett O'Hara exists only within the pages of Gone With The Wind. The fact that the city of Atlanta was burned during the Civil War does not make her real.
Quote:Magnanimous priests? Shock
There’s an argument I never expected to hear from Minimalist.
Why is getting what you want "magnanimous," Pap? It isn't as if they agreed to let the Aten cult exist side by side with Amun ( a decidedly Roman solution to such a problem, btw.) Letting them back in without fighting ( which can get messy ) is a highly profitable solution and priests are always in favor of profit...as long as the profit ends up in their pious pockets!