The biblical exodus and the Biblical Jewish kingdom.

[I and I]

Is their any evidence that these ever happened/existed?

An actual mass exodus from Egypt and then the eventual supposed kingdom. Has their ever been any large Jewish population in the biblical time period?

I say no to all if the above.

[JesusHChrist]

[Optimistic Mysanthrope]

As a few theists don't like rationalwiki being cited, the sources for the info that JesusHChrist just quoted are as follows:

Israel Finklestein and Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, Free Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-684-86912-4.

Dever, William G. (2002). What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8028-2126-X.p.99

Sturgis It Ain't Necessarily So, pg. 74

[Minimalist]

None.

And don't forget Donald Redford an Egyptologist who came to the same conclusion as Finkelstein using a different line of evidence. This shit was first cobbled together in the late 7th century BC.

[Bad Writer]

There's no reason to think it ever happened if it's written in a fantasy book.

[Anomalocaris]

Is their any evidence that these ever happened/existed?

An actual mass exodus from Egypt and then the eventual supposed kingdom. Has their ever been any large Jewish population in the biblical time period?

I say no to all if the above.

Should it matter?

[JesusHChrist]

Thank you for the cites OM.

I doubt theists accept the overwhelming consensus of modern scholarship on this topic either (Finkelstein, Dever, et al), but that's their loss.

One would think this fact would be sufficient to throw a monkey wrench in the whole Abrahamic works, but like the Mormons, no amount of contrary evidence or lack of supporting evidence will change the poor deluded soul's minds.

[Minimalist]

"Faith" means never having to say "oops, I fucked up."

[Anomalocaris]

"Faith" means never having to say "oops, I fucked up."

Faith in reality means more or less "oops, I've always fucked up".

[Chad32]

Is their any evidence that these ever happened/existed?

An actual mass exodus from Egypt and then the eventual supposed kingdom. Has their ever been any large Jewish population in the biblical time period?

I say no to all if the above.

Should it matter?

To some yes. To other, no. I doubt that I could take such evidence to my grandmother to help convince her that these stories aren't true. There was no exodus, or flood, or tower that would have reached above the clouds, or possibly a city of Nazareth, or a census that would require someone to go to their home town of Bethlehem. She's just going to keep saying that I need to stay away from these sites, and get to reading the bible so I don't go to hell.