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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are relatively few facts.

There is a fair amount known from mostly Jewish sources.  Scholars put together what they believe using their training and their best guesses.

Many things in the proto-Jewish sources have some factual elements to them (mitochondria dna supporting the existence of priests, for example).

But if you are looking for "the right" version of anything in history, you aren't going to find it. I think you are [b]asking for more from this author than anyone can give you.[/b][/quote]

Not really -- the author was presenting other religions as myth and the Jewish religion as fact.  And archeological evidence does exist that places Jews in Israel from the start and shows nothing supporting a migration from Egypt via the Red Sea and the desert.[/quote]
[b]Archeological evidence points to several people's living there[/b].
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Yes, including the Jews.

And here's no evidence of Jews living in Egypt, nothing found in the desert indicating time spent crossing or parting of the red sea, with any sign of dead egyptian soldiers' gear, when the sea supposedly enveloped them after Jehovah let the Jews across.[/quote]
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Jews as a people did not even exist, according to Judaism, at the time of Abraham
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As mentioned and described earlier in this thread:

A 2002 NYT article "New Torah For Modern Minds" is available for free at: https://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/ConservativeTorah.htm

Also, a discussion of the archeology can be found in any conservative synagogue in the big ''Etz Hayim'' (''Tree of Life'') books that are in the pews. It's in The Biblical Archeology section, that starts on page 1343.

Also see the Amazon review of the book The Bible Unearthed, by Jewish scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, provides an accurate account of the Old testament.   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BOR8S7A/ref=dp-kindle...redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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