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Exodus
So Many Fantacies in One Big Tale
“They answered him, ‘We are descendants of…
Exodus Encampment Space Required!
Bible literalists claim that purported ancient…
Heavenly Manna
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from…
12 Wells and 70 Palms
Like the Moses myth overall, there is little reason to accept the 12…
Kill All Those Cow Worshipers
At Exodus 20–32 appears the story of Moses and the Ten…
God Loves the Smell of Animal Sacrifice???
In accepting this claim, we are also to believe…
The Fairy Tale Becomes Truth
Notice how many times "God" gave instructions to do the…
The Ark of the Covenant
Exodus 25 discusses the Ark of the Covenant, including detailed…
Writings
Documentary Hypothesis - Wellhausen
Attributing the Pentateuch to a historical lawgiver of…
Who Wrote the Pentateuch?
“Biblical scholars have long known that all the…
The 2nd Book of the Law
The Rabbis will tell you that Moses wrote the Book of Exodus even…
Alexandria?
In his book Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus, Gmirkin “argues that the…
Flight as Myth
“...Moses, or the compiler of the Book of Genesis, whoever he…
Good vs Evil Myths
This archetypal good-versus-evil conflict is represented in the myths of…
WHERE IS ANYTHING EXODUS IN THE BOOKS OF THE PROPHETS?
Absent in Judges, the earliest that…
MANY NAMES OF GOD
Russell cites Psalm 78 along with several others as influenced by the…
No Historicity
Current scholarship demonstrating the non-historicity of the Pentateuch…
No Exodus, No Moses, No Joshua Mentioned
As important as the texts claimed to contain germ…
Moses
The Super-Hero Births
“But we must make mention of the lawgivers who arose in…
God-Given Legislators
Like the divine birth, another ubiquitous tradition was that of…
Law/Code Tablets
The lawgiver archetype usually includes a law code or codes, comprising…
Dionysus' Life
“The Bacchus story also contained remarkable similarities to…
Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
As seen above, in his commentary on Exodus 3.8, Clarke…
Dionysus
“The only gods the Arabs recognize are Dionysus and Urania; the way they cut their…
An Egyptian Priest or Pharaoh?
“An Egyptian priest named Moses, who possessed…
Thutmose II
Because of his name and the dating in 1 Kings of 1441, some researchers have…
Sun
Moses as Solar Hero
“This deity [Adar] represented the sun god primitively…
Yahweh and the Sun
“And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the…
The Great God Sun
“The evidence for the sun cult manifests itself in Europe…
MASU THE HERO
Yet another of these possible multiple meanings lies in the assertion by…
Gilgamesh and Mt Mašu
A major factor in this quest for the origins of the Moses account is…
MŜ THE SACRED SERPENT
Adding to the Mosaic syncretism, in the Ugaritic mythology appears a…
Alcohol
The Vine and Wine
“From being relatively unimportant, the deities of wine and…
Biblical Grape Reverence
We have seen that the Bible is full of grape and wine references,…
Isrealites
Where did the Israelites come from?
“Who were the Semites in Egypt? Can they…
Hyksos and Lepers
“This is Manetho’s account [of the Hyksos]; and evident it…
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The Shoot of Jesse
A major aspect of the vine imagery occurs in the biblical emphasis upon…
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Yhw is Yahweh?
As noted, one of the Transjordanian groups designated in Egyptian texts is…
Shasu of Yhw
As we have seen, the Hyksos have been said to represent the hiq shasu/shosu,…
Hapiru
A century prior to Merneptah, the Amarna letters referred to the people called ˁpr.w…
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