Read the article, not impressed, especially with this tidbit about :
Sorry Curtis White, but Hitchens was right on that issue. Finkelstein and Silberman , archeologists who spent more than 30 years in the Sinai desert comes to the same conclusion: not one single evidence was ever uncovered about the EXODUS.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjrZWXca68
Quote:No Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode either, even in passing. . . . All the Mosaic myths can be safely and easily discarded.” These narratives can be “easily discarded” by Hitchens only because he has failed to do even a superficial survey of the evidence in favor of the historicity of the biblical traditions. Might we suggest that Hitchens begin with Hoffmeier’s Israel in Egypt and Ancient Israel in Sinai? It should be noted that Hoffmeier’s books were not published by some small evangelical theological press but by Oxford University—hardly a bastion of regressive fundamentalist apologetics. Hitchens’s claim that “no Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode [of Moses and the Israelites] either, even in passing” is simply polemical balderdash.
Sorry Curtis White, but Hitchens was right on that issue. Finkelstein and Silberman , archeologists who spent more than 30 years in the Sinai desert comes to the same conclusion: not one single evidence was ever uncovered about the EXODUS.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjrZWXca68