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To: Lazarus who wrote (223338)	10/2/2009 4:44:49 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

What if it didn't ever happen in the first place? Then it tells us nothing ,does it? Ze'ev Herzog Ze'ev Herzog is and has been for many years a dedicated Israeli archeologist, with no axe to grind, but simply searching and searching and researching and researching, seeking "what is truth" as a result he has become i very controversial man.Too many he is servant of satan, that kind of yakety yak from the SO-CALLED "faithful" Before i post this i remind i am a deeply spiritual and a universalist and admitted mystic and a person with strong foundation in science but one that has little time for religion. i also start first from the base of skepticism, before i accept a view or reject, or modify,or out in category for CONTINUED study and pondering.. Regards the old testament i view Ze'ev Herzog a SIGNIFICANT player, to say the least. ************************************************************ The Exodus Never Happened February 27, 2009 · 8 Comments Israeli archaeologist Ze’ev Herzog(1) provides a controversial consensus view on the historicity of the Exodus and some other parts of the Hebrew myth. In 1999, Herzog’s Haaretz weekly magazine cover page article “Deconstructing the walls of Jericho” attracted considerable public attention and debates. In this article Herzog claims that “the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the 12 tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is the fact that the united monarchy of David and Solomon, which is described by the Bible as a regional power, was at most a small tribal kingdom. And it will come as an unpleasant shock to many that the God of Israel, Jehovah, had a female consort (Asherah) and that the early Israelite religion adopted monotheism only in the waning period (c920-900 BC ) of the monarchy and not at Mount Sinai” Wikipedia If the whole Exodus story itself is unhistorical we can safely dismiss the other parts of the story [the parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21), the manna from heaven (Exodus 16:15-35) and the supply of water from the Rock in Horeb (Exodus 17:7)] as mythical addition to an already fictitious account. (1)Ze’ev Herzog (born 1941) is an Israeli archeologist, professor of archaeology at The Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. Ze’ev Herzog is the director of The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology since 2005. i recommend his writings and studies be studied for those NOT aware of him. Here is wiki intro page to Mr.Herzog. This a means that ONLY scratches the surface of what is going these dayus in archeology and the old testament. Such as tidbits like this <<And it will come as an unpleasant shock to many that the God of Israel, Jehovah, had a female consort and that the early Israelite religion adopted monotheism only in the waning period of the monarchy and not at Mount Sinai”[2]>> which ,of course, need be research more deeply. The Maxer:) en.wikipedia.org