[PeterPrinciple]

If, according to the Bible, hundreds of thousands of Hebrews lived in Egypt for 460 years and there is no trace of them archeologically, it is difficult to say archeology is wrong and the Bible is right.

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You raise a good question. What would one expect to find that would indicate a Hebrew culture from that time period? As I read the Bible, they looked a lot like the rest of the cultures at that time.

In my limited thinking, the Hebrew culture began to be differentiated beginning with the Exodus, not before.

Willing to be enlightened.

[kosta50]

You raise a good question. What would one expect to find that would indicate a Hebrew culture from that time period?

I don't know. Moses seems to have had a pretty good idea they were not Egyptians! I imagine they would be distinguished by names no matter what script was used. One can only wonder in what alphabet were the Ten Commandments written given that the Jews did not adopt the Phoenician alphabet until the 10th century BC. LOL!

[kosta50]

In my limited thinking, the Hebrew culture began to be differentiated beginning with the Exodus, not before.

Archeological evidence suggets very strongly (multiple sources) that Israelites worshiped a goddess consort of the Hebrew God (El in Israel and Yhwh in Judah) as late as the 8th century BC.

Since there is no similar evidence of any Exodus or wanderings, I would say their differentiation took place gradually living next top the Canaanites.