Egyptologist Says The Exodus Didn't Happen!

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Egyptologist Dr. Maggie Bryson says the Exodus never happened!

[chriswills]

Its 400 km from the pyramids to Jerusalem. That is a maximum 20 day walk with animals and children. Where did they go for 40 years? Total fiction.

[fepeerreview]

The Old Testament cannot be relied on as an accurate account of historical events. If it could then we would see the annihilation of the ancient Egyptian civilization due to Noah's flood, sometime around the 6th Dynasty. But that annihilation never happened. Egyptian history is continuous right through that period, as were the histories of other Mediterranean cultures of the time. That's just one example of many for why the OT cannot be relied upon for history.

[axelll]

The major trade routes to Mesopotamia went through Palestine. It is impossible to get lost between egypt and Palestine

[RSE-]

It's probably like believing that John Wayne was a real Hero 2000 years from now😂

[davashorb]

I agree. A group that large, wandering around in the desert, couldn't possibly have held together for 40 years.

[rylands]

Not even Egypt's neighbors talked about egypt's economic fall suppose it did happen

[quetzelmichaels]

The Hyksos (foreign rulers/ generals) fled the 'plagues' of a volcanic eruption with their Amu (vassals/ mercenaries) around 1500 bc.

The flood story of Noah was borrowed from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

[joesellers]

It's always amazing to me if you apply a little bit of logic to the stories in the Bible they quickly Fall apart.

[Whispers_of_God-]

First, Joseph was never called Joseph when he acted as a chancellor. He was called Zaphnath-Paaneah because these cultures always imposed their names on foreigners who occupied high-ranking positions. That, in itself, is very significant. Second, the record wasn't kept perhaps because he was a foreigner. It would have been a disgrace to Egypt to confess that it was saved by an alien. Third, the Jews were not called Jews at the time. They represented a group of people from non-Egyptian backgrounds, who weren't even ethnically identified at that time. Remind you, when the Jews went to Egypt they were only one house (the house of Jacob). They became a nation during their stay in Egypt. Pharaoh wasn't the first to use them for labour. In fact, that was the idea of Joseph when his family first arrived to claim they were herd keepers so they get given the land of Goshen. The issue started when a disturbed pharaoh had a bad dream about a Jewish child who was going to be a threat to his kingship, so he started oppressing the people and even killing their firstborn sons. So, what started as a bad omen ended up being a racial issue that led to enslaving the Jews. If there was any mention of Joseph or Zaphnath-Paaneah before, that particular Pharaoh would have gotten rid of it. Don't forget that even in the 21st century, dictators like Hitler and the Khmer Rouge tried to wipe out religious people's contributions to science and culture. If the Nazis and/or the Khmer Rouge won the war there would be no history record left of Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, James Franck, Edward Teller, Rudolf Peierls, Klaus Fuchs and the list goes on. All their discoveries would have been attributed to other scientists from German backgrounds. For the Khmer Rouge, any genius who was found to follow a religion was killed and their works were taken and attributed to proper communists.
Why, then, do we find it farfetched that ancient Egyptians only left records of things that glorified their civilisation and kings but left out everything that could have put them in a bad light?

Personally speaking, when I read the Bible, I don't see big evidence of slavery in the way we, now, understand slavery to be. Later on after their escape, the Jews kept complaining and reminiscing about their lives in Egypt and the pots of meat they were surrounded with and the fruits and all the good of the land. What they described did not match the type of life a slave would have in later époques. Again, in the Bible, there was never a mention of the Jews being owned by Egyptians. The Jews kept their previous dwellings in Goshen. They had quarters and houses for them and their families. They didn't live in Egyptian houses in the way Joseph himself did when he was sold into slavery. So, the Jews were an ethnic group who worked for the estate. Perhaps they were enslaved by Pharaoh himself, as many Egyptians were at the time, since the time of Joseph, who decreed it. Exodus 5:1-22. However, personally speaking, I think what the Bible meant by the slavery of the Jews was not only their slavery to the estate of Egypt but also their slavery to their life of comfort, in spite of ill-treatment. The Jews grew too cowardly to leave Egypt when the first signs of oppression by Pharos started (killing their children). I think that's also what the Bible meant by slavery. The Jews took their slave mentality with them to the desert and that kept them living like nomads for 40 years. This story is very plausible for many reasons. Although it does not mention the name of the Pharaohs in question, it mentions the names of places; towns and regions people lived in and what they were famous for. For example, there is a mention of the town of Ramses and the region of Goshen in Genesis 47:11 ; Exodus 12:37 ; Numbers 33:3 Numbers 33:5. This land of Rameses either corresponds to the land of Goshen or was a district of it, more probably the former. The city was one of the two store-cities built for the Pharaoh who first oppressed the children of Israel.
In 1885, Édouard Naville identified Goshen as the 20th nome of Egypt, located in the eastern Delta, and known as "Gesem" or "Kesem" during the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt (672–525 BCE).
The fact that Ramses was the name of a town indicates that it was probably called after the Pharaoh Ramses, giving us a clue on when roughly these events took place. The story also describes the political and economic systems and how they were run in the time of Joseph. It wouldn't make sense to make the story up out of thin air and for what purpose? Does it add to the prestige of the Jews to be called slaves?! And if the story that was written by the Jews was a lie, why the Jews were mostly portrayed as complainers, cowardly, and generally misfits? If somebody came to me and confessed they were thieves or liars I usually believe them. So, I personally think it was a genuine story but time passed and perceptions changed. We're now reading the text with a 21st-century mindset, and that's a gross mistake when reading history.

[paulkiernan]

The Hebrae group lived in North Egypt. No one sayys they called themselves Israelites back then. Misleading?

[TheFlyingHaggis]

And how could it be possible to stoat about lost for 40 years? It's preposterous.

[epilepticwelder]

can you find evidence i was expelled from elementary school circa 1986ish? it happened

[andrewmays]

I wonder what Rabbi Tovia Singer would respond to this refutstion of the Exodus story in TANACH. 😇

[TheJalipa]

Forget about millions or hundreds of thousands……..what about 5 to 10 thousand?

Which is a more realistic number.

[sendiesel]

what was defined as a "year" in that time?

[smillstill]

It's also possible that she never happened.

[td]

Well you didn't falsify it either did you. No proof doesn't mean God is lying.

[pissanukatika]

Some people like to oppose everything!

[epilepticwelder]

can you find evidence of reality if the judge forces witnesses to sign NDEs ?

[smyd]

BUT I WATCHED THE PRINCE OF EGYPT WHEN I WAS 11