The Roots of Israel and Judah
Tides of History
Historical and Archaeological Aspects of the Exodus Story
The Exodus story, while influential for many outside the Jewish tradition, lacks historical and archaeological evidence to support its validity. Despite the story's ancient origins back to the 8th century BC, there is no independent written or material evidence corroborating it. Intensive searches by historians and archaeologists have failed to find conclusive proof in the Egyptian and Near Eastern records. The narrative of Exodus seems to be a compilation of unrelated stories stitched together over centuries, indicating a local emergence of the Israelites rooted in Canaanite origins between the 12th and 9th centuries BC.
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