Digging out the truth of Exodus: New Evidence of Biblical Exodus

US News ^ | October 20, 2003 | nwrep

[billorites]

"God, you know how much taxes they make us pay in Egypt?"

Think Egypt's bad? Try living in Maine.

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[Dataman]

There is never enough light for those who refuse to see.

[aposiopetic]

Bietak, head of the Institute of Egyptology at Vienna University, recognized the floor plan as that of the four-room houses used by almost all Israelites from the 12th to the sixth century B.C.

The prepared mind was appropriately favored, it seems.

[what's up]

I believe the Exodus took place earlier than these dates...around the 15th century BC.

However, I suppose others may believe a different date.

[ml/nj]

If Bietak is right, the trenches could be the first physical evidence for the Bible story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt.

I wonder if the Ipuwer Papyrus counts. It is an Egyptian document that is in the Leiden Museum in Holland. Its description of the plagues is very similar to that in Exodus. See:

http://www.errantyears.com/1998/nov98/000038.html
http://www.geocities.com/regkeith/linkipuwer.htm

ML/NJ

[xzins]

Besides, Jericho and other Canaanite cities described in the Bible didn't exist when the Israelites were supposed to be conquering them. Finkelstein says the Bible isn't just fantasy, though.

Ping to our OT Scholars.

[Grut]

Think Egypt's bad? Try living in Maine.

Or, you could live in Egypt, Maine (east of Ellsworth).

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[billorites]

"Or, you could live in Egypt, Maine"

Bean there, done that.

[AndrewC]

Thanks

[aruanan]

"That's basically what the story is about," Halpern says. "God, you know how much taxes they make us pay in Egypt?" Maybe through years of retelling, he says, their grousing became an epic of enslavement and escape.

Typical.

[ItsBacon]

Or maybe they're just not looking in the right places...

[DittoJed2]

Besides, Jericho and other Canaanite cities described in the Bible didn't exist when the Israelites were supposed to be conquering them. Finkelstein says the Bible isn't just fantasy, though.
Oh yes they did. He's wrong on his facts. Dr. Bryant Wood came to our school and showed how the original excavator, Garstang, was right in his dating and Kenyon was wrong. He bases this upon pottery fragments found at the site that date to the time when the Israelites were supposed to be there. Kenyon's study was flawed. You can find stuff on this on the net, but here's just one link that kinda summarizes it. http://d21c.com/of-christ/history1.htm The city of Ai is another that Wood has done work on.

[Princeliberty]

Reminds of when they used to deny that the
Assyrian Empire ever existed.

[DittoJed2]

Archaeology is a friend of Scripture, that's for sure.

[nwrep]

Since when did mythologies start leaving evidence?

[xzins]

I knew I could count on some of you out there.

Thanks, Ditto.