Minimalist

:applause:


Excellent, Tom!

Spanky

Hmmm, my interpretation gave me a recipe for Jambalaya.

Frankencaster

On Passover all of us Jews should get together and shout:

We've added an 11th plague....fundie Christians.

PhilosopherJay

The exodus did happen, although some of the facts are slightly exaggerated.
There weren't any plagues, but a few Egyptians did catch warts from some loose frogs and one first born son did almost die of embarrassment when he developed a case of boils.
It wasn't 400,000 people, but four guys. They didn't wander for 40 years in the dessert, but they did take a wrong turn and got completely lost for four hours. They didn't get any commandments, but they did open a lemonade stand near Mt. Sinai and made ten shekels on a good day.

Given the poor quality of information technology - word of mouth through faulty brains with leaky memories beyond a few days, one can easily understand the reason for the misreporting.

premjan

I think it was most likely just a bout of creative myth-making (assimilating some ambient stories) leading to greater credibility for the priesthood.

seyorni

The most damning evidence against the Exodus is the logistics of it coupled with a total lack of what would have been abundant archaeological evidence.

Extrapolating from scripture: "The 600,000 plus wives, children, the elderly and the 'mixed multitudes' would have numbered some 2 million people, compared to an entire estimated Egyptian population of around 3 million." Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Bard & Schubert, ed.

"Marching 10 abreast, and without accounting for the livestock, they would have formed a line 150 miles long." From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. Nat Geographic Society. Eric H Cline.

How would such a catastrophic Egyptian population crash escape historical mention, Except by the Hebrews?
How could the Sinai desert support such a population of nomads, and how did they manage to live there for 40 years without leaving any physical evidence?

Sheshbazzar

:thumbs: :notworthy:

Minimalist

The believers will tell you that their sky-daddy can do anything.

stj

No, I don't think so. There is no archaeological evidence, which directly contradicts the claims. There is also the internal self contradiction of a mere two midwives serving this massive population. The extremely well known examples of ancient Romans or mediaeval Britons claiming descent from Trojans show that it is entirely probable that such legends could be regarded as edifying.

Porky Houton

I don't think it has to do with food at all. The message I got has to do with gathering shoes.