jewish slavery in egypt as told in exodus
March 3, 2008 by chillinatthecabstand
after someone made a comment about my being wrong about the exodus story being straight bullshit, i decided to elaborate on it here.
now, the (main) reason exodus is bullshit is that there is no historical proof (scientists and historians have gone looking) and no historical records except for the bible, which is no way a historical record.
egyptians didn’t record their losses (like the loss of all of their slaves), so there would be no egyptian record of exodus.
therefore, there are no historical records of the exodus story. some apologists have argued this point (that egyptians didn’t record their failures), saying that it proves that the biblical story is true. even if egyptians wouldn’t have recorded the exodus story, the fact remains that there are no records of this event. something isn’t true because of a LACK of evidence!
I have doubts of the historical accuracy of the Pentatuch because I was taught you need two primary sources to prove a secondary. The Bible as a secondary source needs to be ‘proved’ by outside sources, for which there seems to be very few. (also…Creationism?? Give me a break!!)
The story of Exodus is also questioned by Finklestein and Silberman in “Bible Unearthed.” Exodus is, however, central to the identity of the Jewish people regardless of its truthfulness.
The Bible is a good read if it is taken as a poetic version of history. I liked the sex parts in song of Solomon.
About Egypt: I thought the Egyptians kept better records so why is there nothing about ‘Pharoah’s army got drownded? or about the plagues?
The Egyptians were very good builders, so how in God’s name could they require the Jews to make bricks without straw? That would seem to be contrary to their usual attention to detail.
Recent finds show that the pyramids were built by the Egyptians as a WPA project, not by slaves. Wasnt that just a movie by Cecil B de Mille?
And, lastly, I think that the flood story has basis in fact in that recent discoveries in the Black Sea show a civilization drowned thousands of years BCE because the natural dam at the convergence of the Mediterranean and Black Sea broke open and put 200 feet of water in the basin in as little as a month.
How many other Bible stories came from much older societies and religions? There seems to be some universality to a few of them.
All excellent points I have read about from various sources but inexplicably left out here!
For further reading on the mythological nature of the bible, I highly recommend the book “101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History”, which shows how 100 different bible stories/attributes of bible stories were plagarised from older, pagan religions.
I live way out in the woods. The cost of fuel keeps me from gettin to town much.
Do you have a html I can get to that would have more information on the ‘101 Myths of the Bible.’
It sounds like just what I am looking for.
I am fascinated by homogenization if fact and myth in literature and history.
Thanks
http://www.amazon.com/101-Myths-Bible-Gary-Greenberg/dp/1570718423/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207242566&sr=8-1
Is that what you meant by html? Like where to buy it? Or more information on it?
Actually, I looked at it again and it kind of looks like some apologists thing… idk There is also the Jesus Mysteries, which I am intending to pick up this week.
have a good time in hell
Thanks!
Many people that try to prove the Bible is wrong use science. Any real scientist that attempts to prove a theory uses the Scientific method. Using the scientific method you can not prove a negative i.e. “The Exodus is bullshit and did not happen;” nor does the absence of proof prove a negative. The same way one must prove it did happen, one must also give conclusive proof it did not happen.
Wrong…I can just disbelieve all I want. If you want me to believe in your god..prove to me he exists.
I can also tell you that Moses did not write all the Pentateuch, Tower of Babel never happened, Noah’s flood never happened. I have proofs for this position. You can listen or not…don’t mean a hill of beans to me.
Iain:
Sooo, you’re saying that you creationists cannot prove that “evolution is bullshit and did not happen”?