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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 04/18/2007 : 09:15:56 [Permalink]
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I wouldn't say that "most" of the Tanakh's history is "bunk" though it's hard to put too much credence in the Torah's history. There was certainly no world-wide flood, for instance, or some divine confounding of languages. But other parts are probably more reliable-- those of the so-called books of the "prophets" (nevi'im-- the "n"-part of Tanakh) do give some not unreliable accounts of things. To be sure, not everyone would agree with that. Israel Finkelstein and other so-called Biblical-minimalists reject almost anything the Bible says regarding the region before the 7th century BCE.
Anyhow, I'd agree that there's almost certainly no truth to an actual "exodus" as described in the Bible. That said, there is probably some historical kernel there in the notion that Egypt did at times see an influx of Semitic groups from the Levant. |
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