Wikiposters discuss the historical merits of the Biblical Exodus

Moses is kind of like King Arthur. He may have some basis on a real person but the scale is widely exaggerated, it could have been a small group of dozens of hebrews crossing the sea of reeds but with the following centuries the legend was embellished and enlarged.

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!Christians !Catholics !historychads oh man, for months now I have been reading and listening about the supposed historicity of the Exodus from the point of view of non-Fundamentalist and non-Young Earth Creationist Christians and Jews who believe in a historical Exodus, yet at the same time, adhere to the le heckin scientific-historical method and use sources from heckin fact-checked archaeologists and historians, instead of the Atheist-breeding nonsense and even outright con artists and false prophets that American Young Earth Creationists come up with, and I have so much to say about this subject, I was expecting that this topic would have inevitably been mentioned here on rDrama, but I am afraid that talking a lot about this subject would result in me revealing too much about my power level, and I also do not have a lot of spare time to do an effortpost about it, but overall, some random stuff about thos topic that I can summarize is that:

1. Some kind of historical Exodus would have taken place in the Ramesside period during the 19th Dynasty, presumably under Ramesses II (1279–1213 BC, therefore the Ten Commandments and The Prince of Egypt might have nailed it as portraying Ramesses II as le heckin nazi MAGA voldemort pharaoh who genocided heckin cute and valid Israelites), and not during the reign of Amenhotep II in the 18th dynasty (1427-1401 BC), like how American Young Earth Creationists have long claimed, so that their neurodivergent 19th century Young Earth chronology would make sense.

2. The city of Avaris is itself highly important to a presumed historical Exodus, it was a Semitic-inhabited city that was abandoned during the reign of Ramesses II.

3. Since American Young Earth Creationists and Protestant Fundamentalists have had so much influence in Biblical history and archeology discourse in Anglophone media, given their money and media power in the mid-late 20th century, usually the "Early Exodus" proponents have had more influence in Exodus discourse in Bible archeology, so when non-Christian archaeologists think of the Exodus, they immediately assume the date that all of these mutts keep babbling about, that is, the 18th Dynasty from 1427 to 1401 BC, which there is few evidence for any sort of Exodus occurring at this date, for example, Norman Finkelstein of course easily points out that there was no Exodus in this period at all, so the entire Exodus and Conquest narratives are deboonked, but Finkelstein has not yet commented on a supposed Exodus happening more recently under Ramesses II, which is more difficult for it to be deboonked given that there is more evidence for it.

4. In their eternal neurodivergent crusade to DEBOONK evolution and the old age of the earth, they have not only bred a ton of New Atheists and made American Protestantism become an absolute laughingstock, but Young Earth Creationists are either willingly or unwillingly ignoring the evidences for a historical Exodus, because an Exodus in the Ramesside period would shatter their 19th century "Young Earth" chronology, that they hold to as being as important to Christianity as the resurrection of Jesus himself

5. A lot of what the entire world knows about the Exodus comes from pop culture media such as The Ten Commandments and the Prince of Egypt, which are media that are heavily romanticized, and thus, the Western world expects the Biblical Exodus to have been an epic fantasy LOTR-esque action adventure masterpiece like how Hollywood makes it to be, interpreting the text from a modern-day Western view, instead of what the point of view of Bronze Age Semitic peoples, for example, about the plagues, such plagues were actually common in Egypt at that time, they were not intended to be something apocalyptic, and nor would the Egyptians have been unacquainted with such plagues.

6. The number of Israelites was absolutely not in the millions at all, this misconception comes from translations and not from the Hebrew, which IIRC, can simply mean anything from "army" to "host", and once again, the "years" that for example are now also incorrectly transliterated into modern-day Gregorian Western years, Dr. David Falk estimates that the total number of Israelites partaking in some kind of Exodus were less than 5.000-100.000 people, based on recent lexicographical work on the readings of the Israelite census in Numbers 1-2 and Numbers 26, and also the resources and population of Egypt and the Near East at the time.

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