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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (7715)	10/26/2001 10:46:12 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 23908

What is the Bible, chopped liver? Although tradition ascribes authorship of Genesis through Deuteronomy to Moses and the book of Joshua to the military leader Joshua, secular scholars have realized for a long time these books were written centuries after the events they describe - or purport to describe. Archaeologists agree that whoever wrote the stories of Joseph and the Exodus knew Egypt well. That's not surprising. Egypt and the states of Israel and Judah were close neighbors. The territory of Canaan had been ruled by Egypt off and on for centuries prior to the rise of those states. And foe centuries afterward, Egypt continued to intervene militarily in the region. During troubles between the state of Judah and the Babylonian Empire, large numbers of Judeans (including the prophet Jeremiah) fled to Egypt as refugees.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (7715)	10/27/2001 1:23:46 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 23908

Brumar's right. There is not so much as a pottery shard of evidence of the trek of 50,000, or even 200, Hebrews in the Sinai (at last glance, could be wrong now). In a place where one can find a campfire of a handful of bedouin who passed through Sinai 1000 years ago, it is inconcievable that 12 tribes of Hebrews wandered in the desert for 50 years, and didn't leave so much as a trash midden. Similiarly there is no evidence of a sudden, alien invasion of Canaa corresponding to the period. There is hardly any evidence for the Hebrews until much later, during the period of the Philistine invasions. The Israelites seem to have been a nomadic pastoralist people dwelling in the hills of Canaa who came into their own against the Philistines. These Hebrews also seemed to have a dualist religion with male and female aspect deities, the male monotheism seems to have developed later. That's what I recall from memory, at least. Haven't looked at the literature in quite a while. Interesting stuff. Derek