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Is there historical evidence outside the Bible of the Hebrew migration from Egypt to the Promised Land?
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∙ 8y ago
The Bible is good enough evidence and you can see there footprints in the desert
Israeli archaeologist Finkelstein records that there are number of nomadic peoples (which is what the Israelites were at this point in their history) who we know existed but which left absolutely no trace of it in the desert. The point of this is that it would not be expected that there would be evidence since they built no dwellings in the desert but lived in tents.
The Israelites did camp for a large portion of their time in the desert around Kadesh-Barnea in the Negev region before they entered Canaan. Pottery fragments of the right antiquity have indeed been found there which is one small possible confirmation.
The destruction of Jericho also fits in a remarkable way with the Bible narrative of the destruction of that city in the relevant time period, around 1400 BC.
The el-amarna letters also are in this category. Dating from around 1370 BC they are addressed from Canaanitic tribes to the Egyptian Pharoah asking for help against the 'Habiru' which are believed to be the Hebrews. Two other details are also significant in relation to these letters. Firstly, they were sent repeatedly with no record of reply or any resultant action. This would be entirely expected given the recent history of the Egyptian dealing with Israel's God. Secondly, they were not sent from the regions first captured by Joshua and his men, indicating that it was already 'too late' to ask for help in these areas.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 9y agoThere is absolutely no evidence outside the Bible for the supposed Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt or for the conquest of Canaan. While it is true that the Israeli archaeologist, Israel Finkelstein, does mention the 'habiru', this is not evidence of an Exodus from Egypt, simply evidence of troublesome nomadic tribes in the more remote areas of the Levant. To quote Finkelstein, "Today more than 90% of scholars agree that there was no Exodus from Egypt".
The Egyptians left behind thousands of written records, including the Amarna letters, which show that Egypt remained firmly in control of Canaan long after the supposed date of the Exodus and conquest of Canaan, with Canaanite petty kings ruling individual cities and relying on their Egyptian overlords to resolve local disputes among themselves. During the entire period of the Late Bronze Age, life seemed to go on as normal in Egypt and its colonies, including the Canaanite cities.
Archaeologists find no evidence of any exodus of a large group of slaves from Egypt, as described in the Bible. Lester L. Grabbe says (Ancient Israel, page 85) that there is no period in the second half of the second millennium BCE when Egypt was subject to a series of plagues, death of children, physical disruption of the country and the loss of huge numbers of its inhabitants. It simply could not have happened.
With such a massive group on the move in the desert, there should have been burials on a daily basis but archaeological evidence of these has never been found. It is simply inconceivable that massive encampments were occupied over a period of forty years and yet no trace has ever been found, even though remains left behind by much smaller groups have been found from other periods in history.
For more information, please visit:
http://christianity.answers.com/bible/the-book-of-exodus
http://christianity.answers.com/theology/when-science-challenges-the-bible
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