One of
> the strongest
> pieces of evidence for this view is that Herodotos
> noted that the
> Colchians (inhabitants of what is now Georgia) were
> the only people
> visited by him, except for the Jews and the
> Egyptians, who practiced
> circumcision. When he asked them where they learned
> this practice
> they replied "in Egypt," which of course is where
> the Jews picked
> it up.
Completely off topic, but I thought I remembered reading somewhere that recent scholarship disputed the whole slavery-in-Egypt origin of the Isrealites. I can't remember the justification, though...
Jim Baird
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