https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.pre...-1.5244679
Redford traces the Exodus tale to the first half of the Saite period of Egyptian history...the 26th Dynasty c 660-600 BC. Israeli archaeologist, Israel Finkelstein, using a completely different line of evidence reaches the same conclusion.
It's all just a story.
Quote:The Exodus is arguably the most famous of all of the Biblical tales, yet there is no real evidence that it ever actually happened. At least, not the way that the Bible says it did.
This is not to say that archaeologists have not looked. Many have tried to find some evidence, any evidence to grab onto. Nothing tangible has ever been found. At the very least, one would expect that a large group of people wandering around the desert for 40 years would have left some kind of material evidence. If they did, we haven't found it.
In contrast, archaeologists have discovered ephemeral hunter-gatherer sites in the Sinai from the Neolithic period. One could expect that signs of the wandering Israelites would be found as well, if there were any.
Quote:he most logical possibility is that the Exodus tale is actually an ancient memory of the Egyptians overthrowing and expelling the ancient Semitic rulers of the Nile Delta – known as the Hyksos.
This theory was initially proposed by Egyptologist Prof. Donald Redford in a 1987 paper entitled "An Egyptological Perspective on the Exodus Narrative."
Redford traces the Exodus tale to the first half of the Saite period of Egyptian history...the 26th Dynasty c 660-600 BC. Israeli archaeologist, Israel Finkelstein, using a completely different line of evidence reaches the same conclusion.
It's all just a story.
