Ebonmuse

Oh, they don't, do they? Well, let's see what the Amarna letters have to say about that:

--http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/a-rib-addi.htm

--http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/a-abdu-heba1.htm

Now then, Ray, do you have an actual argument to make, or are you just going to go on insisting that the way we know the Exodus happened is that there is absolutely no evidence for it?

jackrabbit

Well, at least we all agree on something.

Apikorus

From the Deeds of Suppiluliuma (Hittite, 14th c. BCE):

When my father arrived in the land, (he found that) the Kaska enemy who had entered the land of Hatti had badly damaged the land. The Kaska enemy whom my father met inside the land consisted of twelve tribal groups...

From the Apology of Hattusili III (Hittite, c. 1240 BCE):

Thereupon, however, all the Kaska lands Pishuru (and) Daistipassa revolted. The land of Ishupi[tta] Marista and the fortresses they destr[oye]d. The enemy crossed the Marassanda river and began to raid the land of Kanes, began to raid the cit[y of...]. The cities of Ha[...] Kurustama and Gazziura turned hostile on the spot. They began to raid the cities of Hatti, while the enemy of the land of Durmitta began to raid [T]uhuppiya... Further, during the years that my brother Muwatalli was in Hatti, all Kaska lands became hostile and they destroyed the lands of Saddupa and Dankuwa... What (of) Hattusa he held, that I took away and resettled it all..

From the Lament for Tammuz (neo-Babylonian; presumably a very late version of an early original):

The daughter of Nippur wept: "It is for the Gutians to finish the task!" Her cheeks were sore (from weeping), she was deprived of her husband in whom she delighted. The goddess of Der (wept): "It is for the Gutians to finish the task!" She whose city was toppled, whose family was broken and violated, (wept): "(Oh women,) weep on account of Uruk, my headband caught in a thornbush..."

From the Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (Sumerian, c. 2000 BCE):

Truly, I myself uttered supplication before Enlil: "May the city not be destroyed!" I said indeed to them, "May an end not be put to its people!" I said indeed to them. But An never changed that word, Enlil never soothed my heart... Verily they gave instructions that my city be utterly destroyed. Verily they gave insructions that Ur be utterly destroyed. Verily they decreed its destiny that its people be killed... On that day, the storm (i.e. the joint attack of the Elamites and Amorites) was removed from the city, and that city was in ruins... Its people like potsherds littered its sides. In its walls breaches were made...

WILLOWTREE

Amarna correspondence is private. It was not created to preserve victories or defeats.

My point is very much intact: Only Israel recorded defeats.

The comment "Where is the Exodus in Egyptian records ?" remains an intentional straw man set by Egyptology to grind a personal worldview axe.

Where does any Near East nation record defeats ?

Besides a scattered handful (none made exclusively for the commemoration of a defeat) there are none.

Therefore we have no reason to expect the greatest defeat of all time in Egyptian records. Why would they record something everyone wanted to get past ?

Ray

Apikorus

Ray, are you blind? I quoted from extensive Babylonian and Sumerian laments just above. Does God tell you to ignore the plain facts?

WILLOWTREE

Archaeology fully supports the Exodus 1453 BC.

Here is a beginners link to other Biblical claims corroborated by archaeology.

http://www.bible-history.com/assyria...scoveries.html

Ray

NOGO

Really, FULLY supports!

Let's see.
Three million slaves escaped.
The day before they escaped they ate meat,
... in an agrarian society,
... three million slaves ate meat on the same day,
... rich slaves!

How does archaeology support this?

NZSkep

how about a link to how archeology supports exodus -which is after all what we are talking about. How about a link which is from an unbiased souce i.e. a non-bible website. If the evidence really supported it then you wouldn't need to just link christian websites. secular websites would support it also. (you can believe the general story of aexodus without being a christian (apart from the outrageous miracles))

countjulian

Why should we believe the Quran when it comes to Egypt since it makes the laughably anachronistic claim that the Egyptian pharoahs used Crucifixtion as an execution device?

FatherMithras

Willowtree, that has absolutely nothing to do with the exodus. lol.