Israel question

[Shane Mage]

"Recent scholarship" of this sort, IMHO, is nothing but a hopeless attempt
to cling to a  hopelessly false Egyptian chronology that is incompatible
with both archaeology and the historical records left by ancient peoples.
Jews of the time of Herodotos, and ever since, rely not on "recent
scholarship" but on their own historical memory as recorded in the
books we call the "Bible."  "Exodus" insists  that circumcision was
introduced by Moses, in Egypt.

Shane Mage


>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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