(July 29, 2010 at 2:52 am)padraic Wrote: PS: there is no evidence the Jews were slaves in Egypt,nor in fact that Egypt was slave based society such as Rome. Public works in Egypt were almost certainly built by levied labour.
I totally agree. Not only that, however, but the Egyptians were very astute with keeping records of nearly everything that went on in their territories. It is quite baffling to think they would have left out something so grand as an exodus of thousands of people. Of course, theists claim that the reason the Egyptians did not keep an account of this was that they were embarrassed.
Sigh.
