RE: If the Exodus didn't happen, the Jews wouldn't put themselves under the Mosaic law
November 2, 2014 at 2:17 pm
Of course, there is no historical attestation of any "josiah" either. Finkelstein goes off the rails a bit there because he violates his own methodology.
The fact is that we have no indication of anything which we might remotely call "jewish" until the Persian Period beginning c 539 BC.
The fact is that we have no indication of anything which we might remotely call "jewish" until the Persian Period beginning c 539 BC.