[ SECRET POST #2809 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2809 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[tasogare_n_hime]

I was just thinking this. I mean did anyone ever find any actual evidence at all that there was ever any mass group of slaves being freed to leave Egypt at any time?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, various groups on various occasions, mostly to do with food supply and labor issues, as you might expect with a flood-dependent economy.

[ariakas]

No. Slavery in ancient Egypt was more like Rome: there were limited-term contracts with personal owners, and they were for the most part treated quite well. The story of Exodus has been regarded as wholly fictional by historians for some time now, because there's no evidence for it, and growing evidence that the Egyptians used paid laborers almost exclusively for large construction projects (and slaves for minor projects and upkeep only). Think of it like Bronze Age welfare projects.

[4thofeleven]

Nothing on the scale depicted in Exodus. The only contemporay Egyptian reference to Jews is a single monument that lists "Israel" as one of a number of tribes defeated by the Pharaoh's armies. Whle you can't expect the Egyptians to record a defeat on the level of Exodus, a mass movement of people should leave some evidence.

There's also the problem that, for much of the Egyptian new kingdom - the period Exodus is generally dated to - Egypt ruled what's now Israel, Palestine and Lebanon. It would be rather odd for a large slave revolt to flee Egypt proper only to find refuge in another part of their empire!

There is some evidence, though, that the name Moses is of Egyptian origin, so there's probably something to the story, some real person with ties to both Egypt and Israel who did something impressive. But the modern Exodus story wasn't written down until six centuries after the supposed time of Moses, during the Babylonian Exile, so that's more than enough time for the details to end up massively exaggerated and changed.