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If we look at the Book of Exodus as a literal history of the Exodus, we could say that the Israelites were an argumentive, irreligious and ungrateful people, who quickly forgot the favours done to them by God and apparently even the evident proof that God was their only god. In spite of this, with only one or two minor exceptions over a period of forty years, they uncomplainingly followed their leader as they wandered aimlessly from place to place through the harsh desert, with the original members of the Exodus, and perhaps even many of their successors, knowing that they would die there.

If we take the view which Israel Finkelstein says is held by over 90 per cent of scholars, we would say there never was an Exodus from Egypt, and that the story of the Exodus only took shape many centuries after the supposed events. On this view, it is the culture of the Hebrews of later times, who dreamed of a glorious past for Israel, that is important.

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