[Destro]

According to scholars I have read the old testament Bible fails in terms of historical accuracy in many of its stories and the translations sometimes get botched like "Thou shalt not kill" should be "Thou shalt not murder".

Not that I agree with the scholars I mentioned, just letting you know what the arguments agianst Bible accuracy are.

PS: The Egyptians who recorded everything seem to have no record of Moses or the Exodus.

[Seti 1]

You are right about the Exodus. There is no mention of it anywhere. Several million slaves revolt, perform several miracles including killing all the first-borns, then destroy pharaoh and his army before taking off into the desert. Yet no scribe writes it down. Scribes in palaces, temples, warehouses, etc., record that such-and such slave was absent sick on such-and-such day and that 20 deben of wheat was issued to the painters at Abu Simbel but they let the slave revolt and the death of the pharaoh slip their minds--all of them. How do the Biblical archaeologists handle this? They say that any day now something will turn up.They also have a problem with the pharaoh they identify as the guilty king--actually, he lived into his late 90's and died of an infected jaw. He was the son of Seti and lies with his father in the Cairo Museum.

So for 40 years several million people wandered around the desert, leaving no trace, although traces of older and smaller groups of travelers are common.

Then Joshua takes over and utterly destroys the major cities of Canaan. Oops! Most of these cities have been identified and dug and there are no destruction layers where there ought to be. Several weren't founded until centuries later. How do the Believers explain this? Hoffmeier, who is a Believer and an expert thinks all those stories about destroyed cities were just typical bragging, not to be taken seriously.

OK, but David and Solomon--they are real enough, right? Sorry, Charley. In all the thousands of tablets comprising the diplomatic correspondence of the kings of numerous cities, the names of David and Solomon do not occur. (Now before someone races in to tell me about the Tell Dan inscription which says "bit dwd" on it, which can mean House of David among other things please go to the following:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/5210/tel_dan.htm.

This will put you in touch with a very serious scholar who is charging that the Tell Dan inscription is a forgery.

[moteineye]

Again the word kill in 1600 could have meant the same thing as murder.The synonym for kill is murder.Look it up. That is not an error.

[semaj]

"PS: The Egyptians who recorded everything seem to have no record of Moses or the Exodus."

I've actually visited Egypt as a tourist. Visited some of archeological sites and the Museum in Cairo. I noticed a peculiarity on some of the pillars and monuments that there would be a blanked-out spot in between the heiroglyphics. I asked one of the guides about and he stated that the blank spots on the different artifacts had been where the name of Moses was but had been erased when he fled Egypt.

[tutstar]

PS: The Egyptians who recorded everything seem to have no record of Moses or the Exodus.

Most of the records concerning Moses were ordered destroyed by Pharoh, however some mention is found in various writings about the exodus.

[Tennessee_Bob]

PS: The Egyptians who recorded everything seem to have no record of Moses or the Exodus.

What's their official explanation on how the pyramids were built?