Significant Find by the Israel Antiquities Authority

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Don't forget that both Israel Finkelstein and Egyptologist Donald Redford have arrived at a late 7th century BC date for the concoction of the exodus story using independent lines of evidence. I don't think you can get from Point "A" (Thera) to Point "B" (Yahweh the Bloody-Handed) with out a lot of intermediate steps along the way. It was a 1,000 years later.