The Exodus revisited

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Aug 18, 2014 at 12:52

Graeme: you tell me how come the extant literary sources in Egypt at the time of the so called Exodus are silent about the Biblical claim that 2 million Jews left Egypt

This would have been about 1/3 of the estimated population of Egypt at the time and it would have been major news but the extant sources are silent and why is that? Imagine if 100 million Americans leave the US over night this would be big news

Egyptians documented just about any and every thing in their lives how many hens did they sell to their wars in the Levand and everything in between

Yes argument from silence is not a strong argument but in the case of the Exodus the silence of the literary sources is very significant

The story of the Exodus is no more than a story and pious fiction and there is nothing historical about

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