Story of Exodus

[shoshi]

Rabbi Friedman explains the reason for the exodus from Egypt and why Egypt was punished with plagues. I thank him for explaining. He gives good lessons.

 

[BULLDOG]

I know a little bit about the reasons for the exodus, but I do know they had some really cool background music.

 

[LittleNipper]

I believe this account regarding the Exodus is clearer and more scriptural:

 

[anotherlife]

So then what was the real reason for the exodus? I think the videos are 100 % confusing. What is your take for the reason? I think the exodus was not even an exodus, because at that time Egypt conquered the entire eastern mediterranean region from the Hittites. It was really just a migration of guest workers from one part of Egypt to another, wasn't it?

 

[shoshi]

So then what was the real reason for the exodus? I think the videos are 100 % confusing. What is your take for the reason? I think the exodus was not even an exodus, because at that time Egypt conquered the entire eastern mediterranean region from the Hittites. It was really just a migration of guest workers from one part of Egypt to another, wasn't it?

Hebrews were delivered from Egypt to the land God has chosen for them. Pharoh was punished for defying the will of God. That is my understanding of it.

 

[anotherlife]

So then what was the real reason for the exodus? I think the videos are 100 % confusing. What is your take for the reason? I think the exodus was not even an exodus, because at that time Egypt conquered the entire eastern mediterranean region from the Hittites. It was really just a migration of guest workers from one part of Egypt to another, wasn't it?

Hebrews were delivered from Egypt to the land God has chosen for them. Pharoh was punished for defying the will of God. That is my understanding of it.

this makes sense to me too.

 

[surada]

Rabbi Friedman explains the reason for the exodus from Egypt and why Egypt was punished with plagues. I thank him for explaining. He gives good lessons.

This is just sad. Mud bricks are still made all over Africa and the Middle East. The Jews didn't build the pyramids.

 

[ding]

Rabbi Friedman explains the reason for the exodus from Egypt and why Egypt was punished with plagues. I thank him for explaining. He gives good lessons.

This is just sad. Mud bricks are still made all over Africa and the Middle East. The Jews didn't build the pyramids.

Like almost all of the allegorical accounts of historical events in the Bible there will be embellishment of the narrative of the historical event but that does not negate the historical event itself. The embellishment occurs to make the account more memorable and easier to remember and pass down. As oral tradition was how important information was passed down in antiquity.

I believe the Jewish slaves were more like indentured servants than what we might think of as slaves today and that their numbers were much smaller than what was memorialized in the written text. Something that may have happened later in time. Other than that it would seem that there is an element of truth in that there were people of Semitic origin who lived in the region at that time and they probably did migrate away from there to Israel.

Here is a very balanced view of the subject.

 

[surada]

Rabbi Friedman explains the reason for the exodus from Egypt and why Egypt was punished with plagues. I thank him for explaining. He gives good lessons.

This is just sad. Mud bricks are still made all over Africa and the Middle East. The Jews didn't build the pyramids.

Like almost all of the allegorical accounts of historical events in the Bible there will be embellishment of the narrative of the historical event but that does not negate the historical event itself. The embellishment occurs to make the account more memorable and easier to remember and pass down. As oral tradition was how important information was passed down in antiquity.

I believe the Jewish slaves were more like indentured servants than what we might think of as slaves today and that their numbers were much smaller than what was memorialized in the written text. Something that may have happened later in time. Other than that it would seem that there is an element of truth in that there were people of Semitic origin who lived in the region at that time and they probably did migrate away from there to Israel.

Here is a very balanced view of the subject.

Everybody headed for the Nile Delta when there was famine and they walked back an forth.. Further, Egypt controlled Sinai and Canaan at the time.. Sinai couldn't support three million people and their livestock.

 

[ding]

Rabbi Friedman explains the reason for the exodus from Egypt and why Egypt was punished with plagues. I thank him for explaining. He gives good lessons.

This is just sad. Mud bricks are still made all over Africa and the Middle East. The Jews didn't build the pyramids.

Like almost all of the allegorical accounts of historical events in the Bible there will be embellishment of the narrative of the historical event but that does not negate the historical event itself. The embellishment occurs to make the account more memorable and easier to remember and pass down. As oral tradition was how important information was passed down in antiquity.

I believe the Jewish slaves were more like indentured servants than what we might think of as slaves today and that their numbers were much smaller than what was memorialized in the written text. Something that may have happened later in time. Other than that it would seem that there is an element of truth in that there were people of Semitic origin who lived in the region at that time and they probably did migrate away from there to Israel.

Here is a very balanced view of the subject.

Everybody headed for the Nile Delta when there was famine and they walked back an forth.. Further, Egypt controlled Sinai and Canaan at the time.. Sinai couldn't support three million people and their livestock.

I don't think anyone believes the numbers, but there is some element of historical truth to the account. Something happened.

 

[shoshi]

This is just sad. Mud bricks are still made all over Africa and the Middle East. The Jews didn't build the pyramids.

How do you know? Were you there when the pyramids were built?

 

[surada]

How do you know? Were you there when the pyramids were built?

Did the Exodus really happen? - Ynetnews

Did the Exodus really happen?

Archeological researchers find no evidence that the biblical Exodus as recounted in the Passover story happened, but rather the Egyptians ruled Israel during that period and that it was they who eventually left, though gradually.

www.ynetnews.com

Prof. Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University (Photo: Uri Davidovich and Yogev Atias) Based on the archaeological finds, the biblical Exodus story's the time period, it was actually the Egyptians...


Exodus: History and myth, then and now | Tel Aviv ...

Exodus: History and myth, then and now

Tel Aviv University researchers shed light on the origin and symbolic meaning of the story of Passover

english.tau.ac.il

We talked to Prof. Israel Finkelstein, a senior researcher at the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of biblical archeology today. "The question of historical accuracy in the story of Exodus has occupied scholars since the beginning of modern research," says Prof. Finkelstein.

 

[Indeependent]

This is just sad. Mud bricks are still made all over Africa and the Middle East. The Jews didn't build the pyramids.

Maybe Blacks and Muslims are plain stupid.

 

[Indeependent]

Did the Exodus really happen? - Ynetnews

Did the Exodus really happen?

Archeological researchers find no evidence that the biblical Exodus as recounted in the Passover story happened, but rather the Egyptians ruled Israel during that period and that it was they who eventually left, though gradually.

www.ynetnews.com

Prof. Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University (Photo: Uri Davidovich and Yogev Atias) Based on the archaeological finds, the biblical Exodus story's the time period, it was actually the Egyptians...


Exodus: History and myth, then and now | Tel Aviv ...

Exodus: History and myth, then and now

Tel Aviv University researchers shed light on the origin and symbolic meaning of the story of Passover

english.tau.ac.il

We talked to Prof. Israel Finkelstein, a senior researcher at the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of biblical archeology today. "The question of historical accuracy in the story of Exodus has occupied scholars since the beginning of modern research," says Prof. Finkelstein.

I'm sure no one disagrees with him.

 

[ding]

Did the Exodus really happen?

Yes, but probably not as embellished.

 

[shoshi]

unless you were there and saw them built you do not know who built the pyramids.