you're citing PBS and Nova as if they're "contrary to the establishment's narrative"
🤔.... I didn't think you would have any issues with PBS and Nova. Okay, feel free to take it apart.
You're also upholding Islam
I'm not sure what gave you that impression, but if I'd agree with you then we'd both be wrong.
I told you Manetho mentions the name Moses
I'm sure you're aware none of Manetho’s original texts have survived; they are lost literary works, known only from fragments transmitted by later authors. What I said, the historical context of Moses in the Bible is that he is considered a legendary figure, although some scholars believe that a Moses-like person may have existed in the southern Transjordan in the mid-to-late 13th century BCE.
you are running so many contrary stories at once
What? I'm not running any stories. I'm just stating the facts, no contemporary Egyptian sources mention Moses or the events of the Exodus, and no archaeological evidence has been found in Egypt or the Sinai wilderness to support the story in which he is the central figure. The institution of the law in ancient Israel has turned up nothing. The assumption that Moses is the founder of a nation is sorely lacking in evidence. Ancient records are silent about Moses inscriptions. Seals and other texts from ancient Israel and Judah never mention Moses or any of the other Israelite patriarchs. Records from the Babylonian and Persian periods say nothing, the ancient coinage from the province of Judah/Judaea says nothing. The Elephantine Papyri from the Persian era Judeans and Israelites in Egypt show zero awareness of Moses and the Torah. The same goes for the Hermopolis Aramaic letters, Papyrus Amherst 63, the Padua Aramaic papyri and so on.
It appears you are not someone interested in pursuing the truth at all costs, but only in popularizing narratives that advance a reactionary agenda (denigration of Christianity, also Judaism)
Why? because I'm daring to suggest that Moses was not a historical individual? I realize that today it is daring to suggest that our stories about Moses developed as late as the Hellenistic period. The dating of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that remains unresolved. Many traditions and myths found among its pages are old indeed, but the text itself did not reach its final form until the Hellenistic period. If this claim is false it should not be hard to disprove. A single manuscript find could change everything, but I'm not holding my breath. Dr. Gad Barnea a historian at the University of Haifa, after examining every surviving Jewish document from the Persian period, recently stated that there is literally zero evidence for any knowledge of, and any familiarity with the Bible at that time. We may not know how far back the stories of Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Esther, Daniel and other Bible heroes go. All we can say is that no one seems to have written anything down about them until after Alexander the Great and his Empire introduced Greek literature philosophy and culture to the near East. So what about Moses? we mainly know of Moses from the books of the Pentateuch. The book of Deuteronomy is thought to tell the oldest version of his story with Exodus Leviticus and Numbers being later accretions. The story they tell is filled with improbable and fantastic elements not to mention historical anachronisms and internal contradictions that indicate a work of creative literature.
🤔.... I didn't think you would have any issues with PBS and Nova. Okay, feel free to take it apart.
I'm not sure what gave you that impression, but if I'd agree with you then we'd both be wrong.
I'm sure you're aware none of Manetho’s original texts have survived; they are lost literary works, known only from fragments transmitted by later authors. What I said, the historical context of Moses in the Bible is that he is considered a legendary figure, although some scholars believe that a Moses-like person may have existed in the southern Transjordan in the mid-to-late 13th century BCE.
What? I'm not running any stories. I'm just stating the facts, no contemporary Egyptian sources mention Moses or the events of the Exodus, and no archaeological evidence has been found in Egypt or the Sinai wilderness to support the story in which he is the central figure. The institution of the law in ancient Israel has turned up nothing. The assumption that Moses is the founder of a nation is sorely lacking in evidence. Ancient records are silent about Moses inscriptions. Seals and other texts from ancient Israel and Judah never mention Moses or any of the other Israelite patriarchs. Records from the Babylonian and Persian periods say nothing, the ancient coinage from the province of Judah/Judaea says nothing. The Elephantine Papyri from the Persian era Judeans and Israelites in Egypt show zero awareness of Moses and the Torah. The same goes for the Hermopolis Aramaic letters, Papyrus Amherst 63, the Padua Aramaic papyri and so on.
Why? because I'm daring to suggest that Moses was not a historical individual? I realize that today it is daring to suggest that our stories about Moses developed as late as the Hellenistic period. The dating of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that remains unresolved. Many traditions and myths found among its pages are old indeed, but the text itself did not reach its final form until the Hellenistic period. If this claim is false it should not be hard to disprove. A single manuscript find could change everything, but I'm not holding my breath. Dr. Gad Barnea a historian at the University of Haifa, after examining every surviving Jewish document from the Persian period, recently stated that there is literally zero evidence for any knowledge of, and any familiarity with the Bible at that time. We may not know how far back the stories of Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Esther, Daniel and other Bible heroes go. All we can say is that no one seems to have written anything down about them until after Alexander the Great and his Empire introduced Greek literature philosophy and culture to the near East. So what about Moses? we mainly know of Moses from the books of the Pentateuch. The book of Deuteronomy is thought to tell the oldest version of his story with Exodus Leviticus and Numbers being later accretions. The story they tell is filled with improbable and fantastic elements not to mention historical anachronisms and internal contradictions that indicate a work of creative literature.