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.
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.