Re: Why no Exodus records in Egypt? Here's why?

"larswilson" <wilsonl035@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> says in
news:mr9be.5833$CH.2404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> The reason why no records of the Jews just before the Exodus
> survive in Egyptian records is not because anyone wanted to
> suppress the idea that the Jews were never there, but likely
> *when*! You see, you can't have a floating record of the Jews
> in Egypt. The record would tell you when they were there and
> perhaps what king was ruling at the time they left. *That*
> information would be extremely critical since it would be
> directly used to date the beginning of Solomon's reign.
>
> Of interesting note in that regard, now that we know the Jews
> left Egypt in the 1st year of Akhenaton, Akhenaton is generally
> well dated in mid 14th century BCE. In fact, using the KTU
> 1.78 astroomical text to date his year 12 to 1375BCE only
> slightly moves up his rule by 8 years or so. But think of these
> implications!

According to the bible, the first buildings in the temple mound
region would have been in place before the time of Sampson. If you
hold the biblical account to be true there was a matriarchal society
living in a 'jebusite' and was one of numerous old hill
fortifications in the region. The dates of other settlements in the
region range from ~10 kya at damascus, jericho, etc. therefore much
older dates could be possible. Apparently the Jebusites were not
killed and many beleive that the davidic kingdom merged with these
women and heavily interbred with them as a power building move in the
region. There is no obvious reason to believe that the city was
leveled and rebuilt, but appended.
Secondarily I have some trouble considering the overall importance
of not being able to date exodous since the story itself is heavily
embellished for the sake of story telling. The point about Ester and
babylonian exile was there was no official written bible, except
possibly the ark, which few saw, and was later lost. By the time of
kings even the bible admits that the two kingdoms secumb to their own
corruption, but they were the interpreters of these 'tablets'. These
persian educated scribes are pinning stories, oral traditions from
whatever and whoever they could find, with competing accounts of the
same events. Evidence of this 'being thrown together' can be seen
with the book of Job, excellent literary story, and it appears to be
from the approximate time of abraham, but it is completely out of
context with the other books, and would have been more in context in
the fertile crescent civilization in which it was written. IOW, Job,
it appears, was a good read and so it was added. Probably the story
of Job was the most intact story of the early biblical stories
included in the bible, others were pieced together from fragmented
oral traditions from a turmultuous history.

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