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Re:Secret Messages Detected on Egyptian Obelisk in Paris by anthk on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:09AM (#43934223)
Exodus it's fake. Sorry, Jews, but it has no historical roots when the Egyptians were the 'log dudes' from its era, kinda like syslogd under Linux/Unix. They jot down everything, and yet we have no proper sources.
Re:Secret Messages Detected on Egyptian Obelisk in Paris by mystified5016 on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:27AM (#43937173)
Go back to 4chan with this drivel
Re:Secret Messages Detected on Egyptian Obelisk in Paris by anthk on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:50PM (#43939890)
4chan? Why? Exodus it's fake, grow up. The Bible is not an historical source of anything. The same we would do with the Gilgamesh myth. Now Enki it's real?

Again, grow up.

Re:Secret Messages Detected on Egyptian Obelisk in Paris by everdrive on Friday May 09, 2025 @03:58PM (#43940393)
That may have been a very poorly (and rudely) formatted comment, however the actual historicity of Exodus is doubted by scholars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Exodus

"Most mainstream scholars do not accept the biblical Exodus account as historical for a number of reasons. It is generally agreed that the Exodus stories were written centuries after the apparent setting of the stories."

"However, a majority of scholars believe that the story has an historical core,[12][13] though disagreeing widely about what that historical kernel might have been."

I am not a scholar, however given just how many tribes Egyptians subjugated, and just how syncretic much of the early Israelite religion was, it's certainly not unreasonable to think that there was at least some group of people which had a "fleeing from Egypt" story which did later get subsumed into the Israelite religion.

Re:Secret Messages Detected on Egyptian Obelisk in Paris by dumbledoren on Friday May 09, 2025 @04:35PM (#43940642)
His language may be childish, but he is historically on the spot:

There is absolutely no record of any slave 'race' of any Canaanites in Ancient Egypt, no kind of exodus, nor any kind of major event in that time period that could lead to such an exodus. The closest that could simulate an 'exodus' is the !likelihood! of some Canaanite people who may have come with the Hyksos in the Hyksos invasion going back to Canaan. Or, some local people who collaborated with the Hyksos, thinking that it could be better to go with them to avoid the ire of their own countrymen, who conquered Lower Egypt after 100 years.

People tried too hard to find anything in Ancient Egyptian history, records and events that could validate Moses, 'slave Semitics' and the exodus story, but until now, there is absolutely nothing. The most likely thing, if you try hard enough, could be the leaders of the people mentioned above, who may have potentially existed, inventing a 'promised land' story to persuade their people to go to Canaan. And even that is too big a stretch. The entire thing can easily be a mythology local Canaanites invented to justify their rights to the land without anything like it having happened.

Re:Secret Messages Detected on Egyptian Obelisk in Paris by anthk on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:01PM (#43946689)
Yes, I agree that my answer was childish; but I was fed up, sorry. I'm tired of people taking myths as a source of events. Just imagine if we do the same with the Graeco-Roman myths, or the Egyptian ones. Everyone would talk about that as pure nonsense. And yet, with the Bible it's somehow dealt as if it were the Elements from Euclid but for the Ancient times, were in truth it belongs to the same cathegory as the Illiad or Beowulf.