Riders
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Last time I put up an Egyptian thread under religious debates I agreed that there were Jewish slaves in Egypt and some people said no. I did find a timeline in Egyptian ancient records in that said something about Hebrew male slaves. So and some even non Judeo or Christian people said yes Egyptian had many slaves were very warlike and held Jewish salves.
I found this article in the WIki to be very interesting do you agree with this, According tot his article Egyptian had very few slaves though there were a few handfuls of nomadic slaves. But the Hebrew term in the bible is loosly used which really only is a term for nomadic people of different religions.
The Book of Genesis and Book of Exodus describe a period of Hebrew servitude in ancient Egypt, during decades of sojourn in Egypt, the escape of well over a million Israelites from the Delta, and the three-month journey through the wilderness to Sinai.[5] The historical evidence does not support this account.[6] Israelites first appear in the archeological record on the Merneptah Stele from between 1208-3 BCE at the end of the Bronze Age. A reasonably Bible-friendly interpretation is that they were a federation of Habiru tribes of the hill-country around the Jordan River. Presumably, this federation consolidated into the kingdom of Israel, and Judah split from that, during the dark age that followed the Bronze. The Bronze Age term "Habiru" was less specific than the Biblical "Hebrew". The term referred simply to Levantine nomads, of any religion or ethnicity. Mesopotamian, Hittite, Canaanite, and Egyptian sources describe them largely as bandits, mercenaries, and slaves. Certainly, there were some Habiru slaves in ancient Egypt, but native Egyptian kingdoms were not heavily slave-based.
So were there Hebrew slaves in Egypt and the next question is did the Egyptian and Moses parting the red sea Slaves that escaped Egypt the Judeo holocost in Egypt did it happen?
I found this article in the WIki to be very interesting do you agree with this, According tot his article Egyptian had very few slaves though there were a few handfuls of nomadic slaves. But the Hebrew term in the bible is loosly used which really only is a term for nomadic people of different religions.
The Book of Genesis and Book of Exodus describe a period of Hebrew servitude in ancient Egypt, during decades of sojourn in Egypt, the escape of well over a million Israelites from the Delta, and the three-month journey through the wilderness to Sinai.[5] The historical evidence does not support this account.[6] Israelites first appear in the archeological record on the Merneptah Stele from between 1208-3 BCE at the end of the Bronze Age. A reasonably Bible-friendly interpretation is that they were a federation of Habiru tribes of the hill-country around the Jordan River. Presumably, this federation consolidated into the kingdom of Israel, and Judah split from that, during the dark age that followed the Bronze. The Bronze Age term "Habiru" was less specific than the Biblical "Hebrew". The term referred simply to Levantine nomads, of any religion or ethnicity. Mesopotamian, Hittite, Canaanite, and Egyptian sources describe them largely as bandits, mercenaries, and slaves. Certainly, there were some Habiru slaves in ancient Egypt, but native Egyptian kingdoms were not heavily slave-based.
So were there Hebrew slaves in Egypt and the next question is did the Egyptian and Moses parting the red sea Slaves that escaped Egypt the Judeo holocost in Egypt did it happen?