this user is a mod of a huge .world news community btw

  • @ghurab
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    144 days ago

    According to jewish lore, aren’t the Israelites originally from Egypt, and immigranted as refugees to what is now Palestine and Israel?

      • @MutilationWave
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        103 days ago

        As far as I know, Egypt was just a story from the Bible. There is no archaeological evidence of a Jewish population of size in Egypt.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          43 days ago

          There are two main positions on the historicity of the Exodus in modern scholarship.[1] The majority position is that the biblical Exodus narrative has some historical basis, although there is little of historical fact in it.[e][5][11] The other position, often associated with the school of Biblical minimalism,[25][26] is that the biblical exodus traditions are the invention of the exilic and post-exilic Jewish community, with little to no historical basis.[27] Wikipedia

        • Zement
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          And a badass one. A small group just peacefully walking/surviving, crushing the Military Superpower of its time with the help of God. Deus Ex Machina.

      • @ghurab
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        -13 days ago

        I’m not talking about real historic events, I’m talking about religious legends

        • Zagorath
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          43 days ago

          I don’t know precisely what Jewish mythology says of the time before they were enslaved in Egypt, but it definitely doesn’t say that they were originally from Egypt, only that they were enslaved there for 100s of years.