/lit/ - Literature

>>19289823
You’re just ignorant if you think there is absolutely no evidence for Exodus. Do the research. Look into El Lahun, the abandoned Egpytian town of workmen where dead infants have been found buried under the houses, or the Amarna letters and their talk of the Habiru, or the Ipuwer Papyrus and its talks of rivers of blood and plagues. Many of these date from roughly the era of the 12th dynasty.

Even Moses is substantiated by the otherwise unexplainable nature of the Israelite religion, which is radically different in every way from the surrounding religions. No one knows where the name Yahweh is from, and the best explanations offered by scholars link it to the name given by Yahweh Himself in Exodus 3, i.e. “I am that I am”. The fact that there was a repudiation of images, other gods, the notion of a Jealous God claiming to be the one true God, the shift towards a guilt-based rather than shame-based system of morality, a transcendent deity, etc., the sabbath (which has no parallels in any other surrounding tradition), etc. All of these a radical innovations. Also the Bible itself is a proof as well.

Moses was real and wrote the Torah. Cope.