>couldn't do in 40 years what should've only taken 7 daysAre they stupid? I know they were slaves but surely being a part of the most advanced civilization on Earth would've given them some sort of navigational skills?
>>18496063The Exodus didn't happen all at once, there were a lot of Jews, it was actually multiple migrations out of Egypt over the course of about 40 years
>>18496063Nibba this is with modern roads and Jewgle assumes you are walking non-stop at a human pace with no time for food, rest, peeshit breaks, setting up/breaking up camp.
If Exodus ever happened in any form, the real form probably doesn’t even remotely resemble the version in the Bible. But if we assume that it did happen just as described, imagine all the difficulties, tons of people, no supplies, hostile tribes all around, literally no knowledge where they were going beyond extremely vague general idea, no proper roads etc.And even if they knew the exact direction where to go, beelining it would have been a suicide mission ending in starvation or dehydration.
The Exodus is as real as Nyame sending a snake from the sky to teach humans how to have sex or Ungnyo the Bear turning into a princess after hibernating for 100 days. Don't give ethnogenesis myths more importance than they deserve.
>>18496063Several things. First off moving a horde of people (I forget the number mentioned in the bible but IIRC it was 800,000) is different than just walking yourself. Think about marching out of a camp. If your marching line is 10 miles long and you first start marching out at 3 am than the rear of your line isn't leaving until maybe 3 pm, so they have like 1-3 hours of walking, which at a comfortable 2 mph (you have women, small children, babies, the elderly so that's probably too fast considering most small groups are probably stopping a number of times for short breaks) gives them lets say 4 miles of progress, meaning at minimum it's taking them 3 months to reach their objective. You also have to consider stops for the stuff like the ten commandments, a slower marching pace so guards can be scattered along the line to protect against raids, bad weather preventing or slowing movement, and since a line the length I mentioned would have a column width bigger than an 8 lane highway which means some passes you'll spend a whole day to move maybe a mile or two.Of course the whole thing is fictional. No archeological evidence suggests an exodus.
god punished them
>>18496063jews are awful storytellers. The only trick they know is throwing around increasingly absurd exaggerations. Even Toriyama had more restraint.
>>18496183>Of course the whole thing is fictional. No archeological evidence suggests an exodus.shared architecture in Egypt and Canaan suggest an exodus because it emerged in Egypt then ceased all at once.as if Canaanite culturals (Hebrews) were living there and left.
>>18496220Name one single exaggerated fairytale told by the Jews that they expect us to believe but that couldn't have been logically feasible at the time, other than the Exodus.Hard mode: no 1840 blood libel of Rhodes
>>18496232An angel defending Jerusalem and killing a gazillion Assyrians
>>18496063It's a metaphor, but a very close to literal one. Because many of them wanted to turn back and invade Egypt to retake it (they were the Hyksos, foreign shepherd kings who got kicked out via popular uprising because they dindu nuffin goy :))))) ).Aaron and Moses were raised in the Egyptian royal court, this is Biblical canon. Aaron supported the faction that wanted to go back and built a monument to presumably Apis (golden calf) because, as the book tries to hammer in several times, they were enslaved to foreign gods. Moses led the YHWHist faction and campaigned for his brother's forgiveness, eventually he won out.
>>18496225or as if canaan was under egyptian rule during the entire time range the fictional exodus is desperately being tried to fit in.
>>1849606340 years is ancient speak for "a long time". Similarly 40 days is not actually 40 days but just a figure of speech for an amount of time.You should be more interested in another question. What did they eat? How did they survive, a lifetime in the desert? The bible says god gave them food from nothing, in my language we have another word for such people: bandits.
>>1849654340 days *is* 40 days in Christ's case though. He wasn't resurrected for an indeterminate long time, it's quite precise.
>>18496552Ehhh who tells us this. Some guy 60 years later. He wasn't there. Why not choose some convenient day with metaphorical meaning when you're writing up stuff that happened a long time in the past, it's only natural. I don't blame Luke for spicing up the Jesus story and making it all into a coherent story. But we don't have to take everything at face value.
>>18496063One of them lost a $5 bill so they spent 40 years looking for it.
>>18496274Pretty sure it was like 100,000 or something.
>>18496538Canaan being under Egyptian rule would cause contemporary Canaanites to build houses in Egypt.There isnt Egyptian culture going into Canaan, its Canaanite culture going into Egypt.Why do you want the Exodus to be fictional?Are you afraid of something?No one does this with the once fictional Trojan war.
>>18496232>a legionary mooned someone>thousands dead>some kids made fun of a bald dude>a bear ate dozens of themIt's like chink history, but even more implausible because it's about goat fucking sand niggers, not bugman rice hives.
>>18496063Archeology?
>>18496063Imagine criticizing a false premise. They were forced to wander due to their disobedience. Joshua 5:6For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
>>18496069Following the coast it's about 220km. Which with an army on the march could take 22 days if they were consistently making 10km a day. A people on the move might take double that time, so really it should take 2-3 months at most to leave the Sinai.
>>18496063please understand, you can't scam and molest your way through a desert
It's a myth reflecting a people's origins in both desert nomads and runaway slaves stretched into a single timeline, it's not historical reality
>>18496064It was actually zero migration of zero jews out of Egypt over the course of about zero years.
>>18496232>the whole world was flooded>a guy got two of every animal and put them all on a single boat
>>18496232>and then they took two fish and a five loaves of bread and fed 5000 people
The Jews are descended from the Shasu Yahweh, a tribe descended from the ancient Hibiru (Hebrews). Originally a nomadic tribe to the south of Canaan that raided Canaan, during the bronze age collapse they would raid Egypt and settle in the Nile Delta only to be subjugated in turn by a resurgent Egypt. Rather like how the Vikings raided England, settled and were eventually absorbed into the Kingdom of England.According to Exodus they wanted to leave but the Pharaoh wouldn't let them. This would be unusual since if they were accustomed to the agrarian lifestyle it would be difficult to return to the nomadic lifestyle, in large part because they would struggle to feed their population. A more likely explanation is that only the section of the population that retained their nomadic pastoral warrior lifestyle fled because they did not want to become peasants after their defeat.This group could not have spent 40 years in the Sinai, literally the driest desert in the world, rather they made a b-line across Sinai for their ancestral homelands south of Canaan, near the famous Petra, which although also a desert possesses some fresh water sources. It is likely they retained some oral history of this region the other side of the Sinai, hence the idea of a "promised land". However during the tumultuous bronze age collapse they managed to successfully invade Canaan and so Israel became conflated with their "promised land".
