What did Egypt's neighbors think of the events of the Exodus? Their traders, diplomats, and spies must surely have noticed the economic and demographic disaster of Egypt losing millions of slaves, all of their firstborns, most of their livestock, and much of their household wealth (donated to the Hebrews).
>>18544731No known contemporary records from Egypt, Canaan, Mesopotamia, or other neighboring states describe the sudden loss of millions of slaves, the death of all Egyptian firstborns, or a collapse of Egypt's economy on that scale. If such an event had occurred exactly as the biblical narrative portrays it, traders, diplomats, and rulers would likely have regarded it as an extraordinary geopolitical catastrophe; an opportunity for rivals, a warning from the gods, and a sign of Egyptian weakness. However, the absence of corroborating evidence has led many scholars to conclude that the Exodus story either reflects a much smaller historical migration that was later amplified, preserves memories of several different events woven together, or functions primarily as a theological narrative rather than a literal account of a demographic and economic disaster visible across the ancient Near East.Now check this out, because this is what really matters:Moses opening the sea was not the miracle. It was the physical effect. The real miracle was the change in perception of the Hebrews. Before they saw themselves as slaves (from the ego). After the miracle they consider themselves freed.
>>18544731Millions?>all of their firstbornsMost firstborns died anyway because most kids died early.
>>18544731In Araboth are 660,000 myriads of angels of glory standing over against the Throne of Glory and the divisions offlaming fire. And the King of Glory doth cover His face; for else the Araboth Raqia would be rent asunder in its midst because of the majesty, splendour, beauty, radiance, loveliness, brilliancy, brightness and excellency of the appearance of the Holy One, blessed be He. There are numerous ministering angels performing his will, numerous kings, numerous princes in the 'Araboth of his delight, angels who are revered among the rulers in heaven, distinguished, adorned with song and bringing love to remembrance: who are affrighted by the splendour of the Shekina, and their eyes are dazzled by the shining beauty of their King, their faces grow black and their strength doth fail. There go forth rivers of joy, streams of gladness, rivers of rejoicing, streams of triumph, rivers of love, streams of friendship and of commotion and they flow over and go forth before the Throne of Glory and wax great and go through the gates of the paths of 'Araboth Raqia at the voice of the shouting and musick of the CHAYYOTH, at the voice of the rejoicing of the timbrels of his 'OPHANNIM and at the melody of the cymbals of His Kerubim. And they wax great and go forth with commotion with the sound of the hymn: "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, IS YAHU SABAOTH; THE WHOLE EARTH IS FULL OF HIS GLORY!"
israelis dug up the whole sinai peninsula and did not find a trace of exodus
>>18544731Judaism and by-extension Christianity and Islam are complete nonsense. There is no evidence of a complete Torah existing prior to the 5th century AUC (after of the founding of the city [of Rome]).The Exodus myth was written as a polemic against Manetho, not the other way around (again, no complete Torah prior to the 5th century AUC).Manetho was citing earlier sources and he has been proven correct by history. He was writing about the Shasu and his ONLY mistake was confusing them with the Hyksos. The Shasu were a group of nomads from the southern Levant who worshipped Yahweh and would later contribute to the ethnogenesis of the Jews. They were considered a nuance due to their tendency to raid the Egyptian borders and at some point in the late Bronze Age, they nearly succeeded in plundering Egypt but got their asses kicked and expelled. Manetho wrote this in his Aegyptiaca and the Jews, being mad that people remember this, wrote the myth of Exodus in response.Only those with a mental illness and leprosy would deny any of this. Also, Egypt didn’t even have the type of chattel slavery depicted in Exodus.
The Exodus is a recycled account of the Hyksos expulsion. The timeline doesn't add up because the Hebrews were essentially grabbing a poorly preserved story from deep in their racial memory and moving it up several centuries to make it more relevant to then-contemporary generations for polemical purposes.
>>18544731It was metaphorical o algo
>>18545961>Most firstborns died anyway because most kids died early.All at the same time? That's the cool part.
