Does a carved statue found in Israel finally disprove the Biblical exodus?
Posted On: Sep 19th, 2016 at 14:20
Israel / Egypt
Does part of a carved statue found in Tel Hazor in Israel – the only significant Egyptian writing found from the second millennium BC in the Levant – finally disprove the Biblical exodus, and thus the Israelites claim to the land of Israel?
In the Biblical exodus, 600,000 men (plus women and children, so technically around 2 million people) were forced to leave the land of Egypt, led by Moses, and headed for the Holy Land. But scholars have always insisted that there is no evidence of such an exodus, and with that amount of people there would be.
So what exactly took place, and why were the Egyptians given such a bad name?
Part of a stone statue may hold the answer to the Israelites hatred for the Egyptians – it now appears the Egyptians had control of the area. The Israelites talk of their oppression and slavery by the Egyptians, namely that they went to Egypt during a famine but were then treated as slaves until Moses was born, who later took the decision to lead them out of Egypt and to the Promised Land. But since there is no evidence of such a mass exodus, it now appears that maybe the story was embellished and exaggerated greatly because the area of the Levant in question was under the control of the Egyptian empire, and the Israelites were not exactly pleased with the ‘oppression’.
It may seem like a rather loose assumption based on a single piece of one statue with very little writing, but it is more evidence than has ever been provided to prove the exodus during the time period that it supposedly occurred. And, without doubt, many Biblical stories have been exaggerated beyond recognition.
