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The hyksos were a semitic people that gained control over some of northern egypt for about 300 years or so. This happened maybe 500 to 800 years before the Israelite nation could have existed. Many have proposed a connection here but I think the timing is not right. Other groups like the Kenites, Edomites, Midianites, or Shasu might be a better fit for an arab-like group from the south who invade canaan and promote their god Yahweh.

I think the whole volcano god theory is really reasonable and there are some active volcanos near sinai in NW Arabia.

But these pastoralist Yahweh worshippers, whoever they were, were not monotheists. They assimilated with canaanite farmers to produce the Israelites/Hebrews of the bible. I wouldn’t call them jews. After some assimilation of these various canaanite peoples, the Levite priests became extremely powerful and tried to monopolize religion (a business) by eliminating the worship of other gods and banning “local” temples and home shrines with “images”. This is how monotheism accidentally occured in Canaan, and it didn’t happen until 500 Bc or so— long after Akhenaten’s monotheistic cult of Aten.

Monothesim is going to happen anywhere a group of priests finds it beneficial and possible to eliminate worship of other gods. It occurs for economic and political reasons. And its bound to have happened in countless other places. Monotheistic Yahwehism of King Josiah’s period is a different religion from the very pagan Yahwehism of a Volcano god practiced near Sinai 500 years earlier. The religion evolved and the people were a different group: a hybrid of Yahweh worshipping warlords and other canaanite groups.

Historians have more or less ruled out a mass exodus from Egypt during the time period in question. A minor migration of semitic pastoralists out of “goshen” and into Canaan is possible but its surmised that such a migration would have had to take place after the Egyptians lost control of their lands in the levant which was around 1100 bc or so, because no where in the bible do they discuss Egyptian rule over these lands (israel, philistia, lebannon). How can the biblical record of history in this area be correct if they don’t mention Egypt ruled the entire land?

Its better to assume that the biblical narrative is an incredibly distorted version of actual events and that some events have no historical significance at all than to try to discover the “real” exodus. The real exodus might have been like 100 people if it happened at all.

nice im gonna check this out you should have posted to /v/tartaria if you're going to talk about antiquitech

This is 10x more believable than the bible.

Revisionist History!

You crackpot!

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