interesting side 'fact'...that 2 Archaeologist who had spent the better part of their professional lives SEARCHING for ANY traces of the 'chosen' who lived in the desert/Sinai for 40 years...and despite decades of searching they found NOT AN IOTA of artifact that demonstrated that perhaps a million people lived there EVER. In their book published in early 2000s they published their findings in a fascinating book called "The Bible Unearthed" by Silberman and Finkelstein /paperback...and really OPENED my eyes long before I read Pappe or Schlaim or Norm Finkelstein..
Here’s an even more interesting fact: there’s not one contemporary reference to the Jews ever being enslaved by the Egyptians. Not one scribe anywhere took down one syllable of hieroglyphics about a huge, enslaved population of “Israelites”.
Egypt being the biggest show in town and the most advanced civilization in the area the Jews undoubtedly came into contact with it and sought to trade there, but the whole story of them being enslaved by the Egyptians for generations sounds like bullshit to me.
And their god. The one god, the only god, the god before all other gods? Most likely that was a takeaway from Akhenaten and his elevation of the solar disc as the only true god.
This vagabond group of desert dwelling nomads took the story of the flood from the Mesopotamians, and their one (angry, vengeful, jealous, racist) God from the Egyptians. Their creation myths and everything else they plagiarized from more advanced societies they came in contact with.
Hebrew is just Aramaic for Semitic, meaning a family of languages and people distantly related by a common ancestry. Aramaic-speaking herders frequently raided the settled lands from Gaza up through Syria and then down to the Persian Gulf through Iraq during the Bronze Age.
The ancient Israelites were very likely those same people who settled in some small cities they had conquered, much like the Vandals settled in Carthage millennia later.
My point is the Vandals came from at least as far as Poland, and the Israelites' ancestors probably wandered around in an area far vaster than just the Sinai in the decades before they found cities too weak to resist them.
interesting side 'fact'...that 2 Archaeologist who had spent the better part of their professional lives SEARCHING for ANY traces of the 'chosen' who lived in the desert/Sinai for 40 years...and despite decades of searching they found NOT AN IOTA of artifact that demonstrated that perhaps a million people lived there EVER. In their book published in early 2000s they published their findings in a fascinating book called "The Bible Unearthed" by Silberman and Finkelstein /paperback...and really OPENED my eyes long before I read Pappe or Schlaim or Norm Finkelstein..
Here’s an even more interesting fact: there’s not one contemporary reference to the Jews ever being enslaved by the Egyptians. Not one scribe anywhere took down one syllable of hieroglyphics about a huge, enslaved population of “Israelites”.
Egypt being the biggest show in town and the most advanced civilization in the area the Jews undoubtedly came into contact with it and sought to trade there, but the whole story of them being enslaved by the Egyptians for generations sounds like bullshit to me.
And their god. The one god, the only god, the god before all other gods? Most likely that was a takeaway from Akhenaten and his elevation of the solar disc as the only true god.
This vagabond group of desert dwelling nomads took the story of the flood from the Mesopotamians, and their one (angry, vengeful, jealous, racist) God from the Egyptians. Their creation myths and everything else they plagiarized from more advanced societies they came in contact with.
Hebrew is just Aramaic for Semitic, meaning a family of languages and people distantly related by a common ancestry. Aramaic-speaking herders frequently raided the settled lands from Gaza up through Syria and then down to the Persian Gulf through Iraq during the Bronze Age.
The ancient Israelites were very likely those same people who settled in some small cities they had conquered, much like the Vandals settled in Carthage millennia later.
My point is the Vandals came from at least as far as Poland, and the Israelites' ancestors probably wandered around in an area far vaster than just the Sinai in the decades before they found cities too weak to resist them.