Our earliest mention of the name Yahweh comes from the Soleb Inscription (15th century BC) which mentions a group in the southern Levant called the “Shasu of Yahweh” (who presumably worshiped him). Later on in the 12th century BC (when Exodus allegedly happened btw), these Shasu, led by a warlord named Irsu, invaded Egypt during a period of instability and while they occupied Egypt, they plundered temples and “treated the gods as men” (I.E. viewing them as “false gods”). Eventually Pharaoh Setnakhte expelled the Shasu.The 3rd century BC Greco-Egyptian historian and high priest of Ra Manetho described this event in his Greek-language work detailing the history of Egypt titled Aegyptiaca and interestingly he wrote that after his expulsion, Irsu (rendered as “Osarseph” in Greek) changed his name to Moses (Manetho was using an earlier now-lost source). Now admittedly, Manetho did make a few errors in his account (he confused the Shasu with earlier invaders known as the Hyksos, confused Setnakhte with Amenhotep II, and mistook Irsu/Osarseph for being a renegade priest who allied with the foreign invaders even though he was one of them himself), but overall what he was saying was correct—the historical “Exodus” was not escaped slaves fleeing Egypt (Egypt didn’t even have the type of chattel slavery depicted in Exodus) but rather foreign invaders expelled for their crimes.
>>18479227Bump
>>18479227You're the dumbest on earth.
>>18479904Cope
>>18479227>Egypt didn’t even have the type of chattel slavery depicted in ExodusYes it did, Egypt had a massive population of state owned slaves, these were typically foreign prisoners of war, criminals, people who had tried to avoid corvee labor and the children of other slaves. When they weren't working they were held in fortified camps, surrounded by guards keeping them inside, basically prisons. The whole idea that Egypt didn't have slavery is from one nationalist Egyptian historian who tried to claim that they weren't really slaves because as good nationalistic Egyptians they would have enjoyed working for free for the state. And it's been repeated by clickbait pop history ever since.
>>18480088Shalom Moshe
>>18480088this is true.
>>18480088>God told us to go to Egypt then escape itSo chaos demon Aamu indian-euros and semites who constantly invaded them get captured and instead of getting killed like the demons they are they are put to work and fed and not sacrificed to Set or even castrated to stop them from breeding more demon Aamu babies. Yeah right it was like the Semites and Indian-Euro Trans-Sahara and Trans-Atlantic slave trades, kek no wonder the Hyksos took them over because the Rmt wuz ruthless slavers.
