Scientist Defends Account Of Exodus

Washington Post ^ | 4-10-2003 | Richard N. Ostling

[far sider]

Where the hell did you did this up from? This post must be at least a month old. Do you normally reply to posts that old without any prior discussion?

No, I don't and I didn't mean to this time. I must have linked to this thread from another current one. Sorry about the strange post. It was tacky anyway.

[bert]

The problem with that is......

The Exodus probably did happen except that it was such a trivial event the Egyptian historians did not take note. Later writers embellished the event much as Bill Clinton is doing to his legacy today.

[DensaMensa]

}A boy was relating the story of the Jews exodus from Egypt...

One of many good old stories. But would be more accurate if talked in terms of "Israelites" instead of Jews. There were no Jews in Egypt at that time, but there were Israelites. No people would be named "Jews" for another thousand years, and they would be only a tiny sub-set of several of the 12 tribes.

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here's a link that still works.

Leading scientist defends the Exodus account but puts Sinai in Saudi Arabia
By Richard N. Ostling / AP Religion Writer
Saturday, April 12, 2003
http://www.detnews.com/2003/religion/0304/25/religion-134680.htm

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Google

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I would suggest to those interested to get the book

On the Reliability of the Old Testament by Kitchen, K. A.

ISBN 0-8028-4960-1

Please spend a few nights reading it and then form your own conclusion about Exodus et al.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, CTP.

Fifteen Frequently Asked Questions
Q5: Has Professor Kenneth Kitchen shown
that the CoD restructuring of
Egyptian chronology is impossible?
by Peter James and Robert Morkot

Kitchen also claimed that his case regarding the relationship between dynasties 21 and 22 was "backed by other evidence (the Neseramun family tree, etc)". What the Neseramun genealogy says is actually rather surprising. The family trees of Egyptian officials often mention under which Pharaoh a given individual held office. In this case the Neseramun genealogy specifically states that Siamun was the contemporary of two individuals. If Kitchen is right, one would expect from the rest of the genealogy that these individuals lived before the end of the 21st Dynasty. As it happens they did not. In genealogical terms they lived one to two generations after Shoshenq I, founder of the 22nd Dynasty. At a conference on Mediterranean chronology in 1995 we presented the evidence from the Neseramun and other genealogies that Siamun must have been a contemporary of the early 21st Dynasty (James et al. 1998, 32-4). The evidence from the Neseramun family tree thus shows completely the opposite of what Kitchen claimed.

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On the Reliability of the Old Testament by Kenneth A. Kitchen

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The Miracles of Exodus: A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical Stories by Colin Humphreys (Paperback) (Kindle) (Hardcover) (Audible) (MP3 CD)

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