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To: nickcarraway
1800 B.C. seems a bit too early to be the Moses of the Bible. Dating of the patriarchs is problematic. The first fixed point is the Merneptah stele from about 1220 B.C. which shows that the Israelites were in the land of Canaan by then.

But it looks like the Hebrews invented the zot. Who knew?

10 posted on 07/07/2025 3:35:50 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Read the article, it says that the language is dated to as long ago as 1800 BC, not Moses. The Exodus took place circa 1446 BC, when Moses was 80 years old, according to the Bible.


23 posted on 07/07/2025 7:15:23 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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