Interesting Find in Turkey

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So the writing of the bible began with the stories that were passed down verbally.

Absurd.


The oldest stories were stolen from older and wiser cultures, notably Mesopotamia. The flood myth, for example.

http://worldliteratures.suite101.com/art..._atrahasis


Since about 1980 archaeologists have steadily dismantled the pretty notions built up by "biblical archaeologists" ( a fancy name for preachers masquerading as scholars!) in the preceding 100 years.
There are plenty of books published about this, " The Bible Unearthed," "The View from Nebo," "Did God Have A Wife," etc. I'm sure the mere thought of them would scare the living piss out of you.

The date(s) commonly given for the Exodus vary from ca 1500 to 1100 BCE

And there is not a shred of evidence for any Jews/Hebrews/Israelites as slaves in Egypt at either of those dates or anything in between.

Somewhere around 1550 BC a pharaoh named Ahmose I drove Semitic invaders back to Canaan. They were called the Hyksos and they were rulers, not slaves. They were defeated in Canaan setting up effectively 4 centuries of Egyptian hegemony over Canaan, down to about 1150 BC when Egypt began its long spiral to oblivion.