Then there's the issue of 300 to 500k Jews crossing the Sinnai desert out of Egypt , they would have left one shard of pottery so the problem has been that after a century of digging, archaeologists have found no evidence that Israelites were in Egypt around 2nd millenium. They think they found one house dated around 1200bc just recently, but one 3bdrm house hardly counts for much.
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If the Israelites had been enslaved in Egypt for a long duration followed by an Exodus, there would be the clearest archaelogical record back in Israel of their return, differences in housing construction , pottery & anything else that would mark a long stay & trek out of Egypt. But the clincher is the linguistic evidence. Hebrew is a dialect of west semetic, Canaanite. If, as the bibel states, the Hebrews were slave for centuries why did their language not change, why was there no changes to the grammar, why were there no loan words.
There's few African American who can speak Yoruba or Ibo as their native language, slaves of every society adopt the language of their oppressors, no exceptions. After just 60 years in captivity by the Babylonians Hebrew was subsumed by Aramaic and it was no longer the everyday language of Israel or Judea. The same thing happened in the Roman empire, the Hellenised Jews spoke Greek and in the west they spoke Latin, which late became Ladino. In the north hebrew became Yiddish in a very short time.
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