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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828134503321

Autore

Feinman Peter

Titolo

The Exodus : An Egyptian Story

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-78925-475-2

1-78925-477-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages)

Disciplina

932.014

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Did the Exodus occur? This question has been asked in biblical scholarship since its origin as a modern science. The desire to scientifically resolve this question was a key component in the funding of archaeological excavations in the 19th century. Egyptian archaeologists routinely equated sites with their presumed biblical counterpart. Initially, it was taken for granted that the Exodus had occurred. It was simply a matter of finding the archaeological data to prove it. So far, those results have been for naught. This book takes a very real-world approach to understanding the Exodus. It is not a story of cosmic spectaculars that miraculously or coincidentally occurred when a people prepared to leave Egypt.