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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 2:40 am
Actually there was that type of slavery in the late Bronze Age in Egypt especially as Egypt was victorious in military campaigns.
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 11:52 am
This is going to end really messily.
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 1:36 pm
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 1:41 pm
It's like a fatal fascination to the apologists.
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Surely the Exodus will just be the Israelite origin myth, like Aeneas or Romulus and Remus, or like the Pilgrims and the mayflower (which is surprisingly steeped in myth). Having the bible as the only corroborating evidence doesn't really make it look like it could be anything else.
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 3:49 pm
(September 28, 2012 at 2:40 am)Polaris Wrote: Actually there was that type of slavery in the late Bronze Age in Egypt especially as Egypt was victorious in military campaigns.
You don't know much about Ancient Egypt, do you?
They did not even have a word for "slave."
The bulk of the Egyptian population was more akin to serfs, tied to the land and occasionally called upon for military service or labor on construction projects in a corvee system.
I'm afraid that your bible's notion of "slavery" is another of those anachronisms which helps us date it to later in the first millenium. There is no evidence for any mass hebrew slavery anywhere in Egypt. Zero. Cecil B. DeMille was not an Egyptologist.
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Quote:While Biblical tradition (and an number of Hollywood productions) hold that the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt, there is no clearcut contemporary evidence of this in Egypt. Certainly, people from that region were captured and taken to Egypt as war captives and probably became slaves, but the extent to which they were allowed to maintain ethnic/religious groupings is not entirely clear. Nor are their records of "Hebrews" or "Israelites" as slaves during the times during which it is usually assumed they would have been there.
The Egyptians were not the Romans or even Greeks. They did not send colonies of their own citizens to captured lands which required them to dispossess those living on those lands.
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 8:26 pm
By the 18th Dynasty (the penultimate dynasty in the Bronze Age), the Egyptians had started to use POWs as slaves. You might want to brush up on your Ancient Egyptian history especially on the New Kingdom time period.
Just one example translated from hieroglyphics.
The number of spoil taken in them ..... of vile Naharina who were as defenders among them, with their horses, 691 prisoners, 29 hands, 48 mares ... in that year 295 male and female slaves, 68 horses, 3 gold dishes, 3 silver dishes, ........
You used Yahoo answers? WTF dude.
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 8:45 pm
(September 28, 2012 at 8:26 pm)Polaris Wrote: By the 18th Dynasty (the penultimate dynasty in the Bronze Age), the Egyptians had started to use POWs as slaves. You might want to brush up on your Ancient Egyptian history especially on the New Kingdom time period.
Just one example translated from hieroglyphics.
The number of spoil taken in them ..... of vile Naharina who were as defenders among them, with their horses, 691 prisoners, 29 hands, 48 mares ... in that year 295 male and female slaves, 68 horses, 3 gold dishes, 3 silver dishes, ........
You used Yahoo answers? WTF dude. How did they use those slaves?
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Quote:You used Yahoo answers? WTF dude.
Most convenient way since he was giving reliable information and I don't feel like digging through my history books, scanning, hosting and posting the info just to disabuse you of the silly notion that there were Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
There weren't.
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RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 28, 2012 at 9:49 pm
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(September 28, 2012 at 8:58 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:You used Yahoo answers? WTF dude.
Most convenient way since he was giving reliable information and I don't feel like digging through my history books, scanning, hosting and posting the info just to disabuse you of the silly notion that there were Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
There weren't.
Since when was this conversation about Hebrew slaves? Try and focus.
The POW slaves were used as servants rather than for public projects poppy.
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