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The Exodus - An Egyptian Story (Paperback)
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The Exodus - An Egyptian Story (Paperback)
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Did the Exodus occur? This question has been asked in biblical
scholarship since its origin as a modern science. The desire to
resolve the question scientifically was a key component in the
funding of archaeological excavations in the nineteenth century.
Egyptian archaeologists routinely equated sites with their presumed
biblical counterpart. Initially, it was taken for granted that the
Exodus had occurred. It was simply a matter of finding the
archaeological data to prove it. So far, those results have been
for naught. The Exodus: An Egyptian Story takes a very real-world
approach to understanding the Exodus. It is not a story of cosmic
spectaculars that miraculously or coincidentally occurred when a
people prepared to leave Egypt. There are no special effects in the
telling of this story. Instead, the story is told with real people
in the real world doing what real people do. Peter Feinman does not
rely on the biblical text and is not trying to prove that the Bible
is true. He places the Exodus within Egyptian history based on the
Egyptian archaeological record. It is a story of the rejection of
the Egyptian cultural construct and defiance of Ramses II.
Egyptologists, not biblical scholars, are the guides to telling the
Exodus story. What would you expect Ramses II to say after he had
been humiliated? If there is an Egyptian smoking gun for the
Exodus, how would you recognize it? To answer these questions
requires us to take the Exodus seriously as a major event at the
royal level in Egyptian history.
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