When was "the land of Israel" as per the article first established?
(Hint it wasn't till after the time of the forefathers of the Jews.) so why would their be camels in the 'land of Israel?' At the time of Abraham? this was well before the Jews.
Ooops..
Now ask where did Abraham Isaac Joseph and everyone else mentioned live? Answer: Canaan. I know what your thinking, that is a massive track of land, so where did they live specifically? On the southern end boarding Egyptian territories. How do we know this? The bible tells us so. It's a trek (desert, not star) to Egypt but all of their primary interactions (especially Joseph and every generation after him till Moses some 500 to 800 years later) happened in or around Egypt.
Now the question becomes did Egypt have camels then?
According to the evidence isocard (international society of camelid research and development) has compiled they did.
http://www.isocard.org/e_Library/Proceed..._01_23.pdf
"The proposed time of camel entry into Egypt after its domestication in Arabia was found between 2500 and 1400 B.C. Evidences from excavation findings, archaeological records and rock engravings beginning from prehistoric time till Roman time, in which camels were certainly known, were reported in this study. Representative photos, diagrams and tables were used to support the findings of this study."
And most scholars put Abraham in or around northern Egypt/ southern Canaan 2000 to 1600 BC.
Ooooooops
Now at the time of the exodus, 5 to 8 hundred years after Joseph. the Egyptians wanted the Jews to leave so badly they let them have whatever they wanted. (They just lost all of their first born while the Jews did not) Now if you got to pillage your way through down town and take what ever you wanted just before you marched off into the desert, would you leave the camels behind?
Oooooooooooooooooooopss.
I know your going to worm and try to squirm out of this, just know when you do your going to have to ignore real evidence for conjecture and speculation.
(Hint it wasn't till after the time of the forefathers of the Jews.) so why would their be camels in the 'land of Israel?' At the time of Abraham? this was well before the Jews.
Ooops..
Now ask where did Abraham Isaac Joseph and everyone else mentioned live? Answer: Canaan. I know what your thinking, that is a massive track of land, so where did they live specifically? On the southern end boarding Egyptian territories. How do we know this? The bible tells us so. It's a trek (desert, not star) to Egypt but all of their primary interactions (especially Joseph and every generation after him till Moses some 500 to 800 years later) happened in or around Egypt.
Now the question becomes did Egypt have camels then?
According to the evidence isocard (international society of camelid research and development) has compiled they did.
http://www.isocard.org/e_Library/Proceed..._01_23.pdf
"The proposed time of camel entry into Egypt after its domestication in Arabia was found between 2500 and 1400 B.C. Evidences from excavation findings, archaeological records and rock engravings beginning from prehistoric time till Roman time, in which camels were certainly known, were reported in this study. Representative photos, diagrams and tables were used to support the findings of this study."
And most scholars put Abraham in or around northern Egypt/ southern Canaan 2000 to 1600 BC.
Ooooooops
Now at the time of the exodus, 5 to 8 hundred years after Joseph. the Egyptians wanted the Jews to leave so badly they let them have whatever they wanted. (They just lost all of their first born while the Jews did not) Now if you got to pillage your way through down town and take what ever you wanted just before you marched off into the desert, would you leave the camels behind?
Oooooooooooooooooooopss.
I know your going to worm and try to squirm out of this, just know when you do your going to have to ignore real evidence for conjecture and speculation.
