Does the Exodus Book belong to History ?
Uploaded by clgz on Apr 26, 2008
Do the Book of Exodus and other books
of Pentateuch belong to History?
Some scholars, by reading the Bible and the texts related to it, have expressed strong reserves as far as the historical veracity of events such as Exodus are concerned.
But nobody can doubt, as Mr. Guy Rachet explains to us in his book La Bible, mythe et réalité, that the Book carries both real events (themselves referring to the history of the Jewish people) and mythical events. In other words, nobody can doubt that Israelites (who had an other name at that time) had emigrated into Egypt, from Canaan, at the time of the Hyksos; and nobody can doubt that the ancestors or the modern Jews (we have in mind, here, the sons of Jacob and their descendants born in Egypt, as well as the tribes living in Canaan at that time) had fought, under the name of Canaanites, against that people of the Sea named Philistines (since that tribe had settled down, on the coast, nearby the actual city or region of Gaza); and nobody can doubt that these Canaanites had probably refuged into the mountains whey they will found the small realms of both Israel and Judah (a matter which is not mentioned, in that way, in the Bible, a Bible expressing here in a way similar to the Annals of the kings of other peoples, by glorifying the victories, at that times, on the field, of the divine people and its leaders, or, if it was not the case, by converting their defeats in victories - as we can read in a Book of Exodus telling us how Moses had killed the elements of the army of Pharaoh who pursued him and his people, by drowning them with the help of a God (his name is Yahweh) who then cast the waters of the Red Sea onto them after having opened the latter in the middle to enable the divine troupe to move over it on dry foot. In short, if we read, in the Bible, that the hebrew nation has been freed from Pharaon with help of God and Moses, the historical reality is probably that the Ibris of Egypt have had to leave the Egyptian country and to refuge into the desert of Sinai after the invasion of the Delta of the Nile by the Peoples of the Sea, desert...