(April 17, 2013 at 8:56 am)archangle Wrote: No, that is not the consensus at all. The consensus is that the Jews may have come from Egypt.
You have a link? That is not what I've read. From what I understand:
1. No evidence for an Exodus/enslavement in Egypt. Most scholars don't think it happened.
2. Jews were already in Canaan and were just another tribe there.