"Really, it's a myth"

Not to beat a dead horse, but upon stumbling on this piece in the NY Times, I thought it would go as a nice pre "Good Friday" and "Easter Sunday" posting.

“Really, it’s a myth,” Dr. Hawass said of the story of the Exodus, as he stood at the foot of a wall built during what is called the New Kingdom.

Egypt is one of the world’s primary warehouses of ancient history. People here joke that wherever you stick a shovel in the ground you find antiquities. When workers built a sewage system in the downtown Cairo neighborhood of Dokki, they accidentally scattered shards of Roman pottery. In the middle-class neighborhood of Heliopolis, tombs have been discovered beneath homes.

But Egypt is also a spiritual center, where for centuries men have searched for the meaning of life. Sometimes the two converge, and sometimes the archaeological record confirms the history of the faithful. Often it does not, however, as Dr. Hawass said with detached certainty.

“If they get upset, I don’t care,” Dr. Hawass said. “This is my career as an archaeologist. I should tell them the truth. If the people are upset, that is not my problem.”

The story of the Exodus is celebrated as the pivotal moment in the creation of the Jewish people. As the Bible tells it, Moses was born the son of a Jewish slave, who cast him into the Nile in a basket so the baby could escape being killed by the pharaoh. He was saved by the pharaoh’s daughter, raised in the royal court, discovered his Jewish roots and, with divine help, led the Jewish people to freedom. Moses is said to have ascended Mt. Sinai, where God appeared in a burning bush and Moses received the Ten Commandments.

In Egypt today, visitors to Mount Sinai are sometimes shown a bush by tour guides and told it is the actual bush that burned before Moses.[ Okay. I got a great laugh out of that one. Folks what exactly is the lifespan of a bush? Really. That would have to be the OLDEST bush in existence. I can buy a 3,000 year old tree, but a 3000 year old bush? That is too much.]


But archaeologists who have worked here have never turned up evidence to support the account in the Bible, and there is only one archaeological find that even suggests the Jews were ever in Egypt. Books have been written on the topic, but the discussion has, for the most part, remained low-key as the empirically minded have tried not to incite the spiritually minded.

So let's be clear here. It is KNOWN that there is no evidence of any purported Exodus. There are multiple books discussing this topic and yet and still this myth is put in our faces because no one wants to upset or incite the "spiritually minded"? I mean seriously, Incite them to do what exactly?

Of course there is always the coverup theory:

“A pharaoh drowned and a whole army was killed,” he said recounting the portion of the story that holds that God parted the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to escape, then closed the waters on the pursuing army.

“This is a crisis for Egypt, and Egyptians do not document their crises

I mean a river is parted. Egypt, the most powerful nation at the time, loses hundreds if not thousands of soldiers and generals and the only surviving account is from the group with the most to gain from the story. Right. I mean it's not like this group had any ulterior motives for telling such a story. Besides, there are no other documented "bad" periods in ancient Khemet. Nope. none at all.


Also: Abrahamic What?
Book of Coming Forth By Day

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