uravip2me said:
Adam would have spoken and written in Hebrew.
That's an assumption that you have no way to verify.
If Adam did exist, he would live through much of the 4th millennium BCE (3999-3000 BCE).
(As a side-note, according to the Wikipedia page about the Flood, it has been dated to 2340 BCE. In the Genesis, from Adam to Noah's Flood is 1656 years (or 1656 AM). If that had been the case then Adam was created in 3996 BCE and his death would have occurred about 3066 BCE. So 726 years between Adam's death and Noah embarking on the Flood.)
My point with the dating, is that there are no historical or literary evidences that Hebrew language was ever used (spoken or written) in the 4th millennium BCE...Or even the 3rd millennium BCE for that matter.
Moses supposed living in the 3rd quarter of the 2nd millennium BCE.
(Abraham's covenant occurred in 2033 AM, so dated to 1963 BCE. According to Exodus 12:40-41, 430 years between the Covenant and Moses's exodus out of Egypt began.
Exodus 12:40-41 said:
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
So Moses leading the Israelites would have occurred in 2463 AM or 1533 BCE. At Moses' death, Joshua led the Israelites to invade Canaan, 40 years later, in 2503 AM or 1493 BCE.)
1493 BCE is a bad time for the Canaan invasion because it would put in the reign of Thutmosis II (1503-1491 BCE), who was father of Thutmosis III (1471-1458 BCE). Hatshepsut (1491-1471 BCE) was consort to Thutmosis II, but only a stepmother to Thutmosis III. Between 1530 and 1458 BCE, Canaan (as well as Syria) was in the hands the rulers of Egypt.
There archaeological evidences are there, as well as well-documented historical evidences in Egypt, so there is absolutely no way for Israelites to occur at this time.
My own datings of Genesis and Exodus is different and the events would have historically occurred much later, which would have been at the time of Egypt was weaker in imperial and foreign spheres, particularly in Canaan.
See my 3 tables on my webpage on the
Timeline of the Patriarchs (from
Dark Mirrors of Heaven website). The last timeline give date from Abraham's covenant to Moses' death, according to my own calculation.
uravip2me said:
Did anything in writing 'Not on the Ark' survive the Flood? No.
Pre-flood artifacts would have to be on non-perishable materials.
Historically, archaeologically and even geologically, there were no evidences of Flood occurring at any time of the 2nd half of 3rd millennium BCE.
There are no breaks in Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilisations at this time.
According to the genealogy in Genesis 10, Egypt only existed after the Flood, because Egypt was a son of Ham. This is totally absurd, considering Egypt existed before the supposed Flood, for example the Pyramids of Giza were built by 4th dynasty. There were also many pyramids built by Egyptians, even earlier than those of Giza, in the 3rd dynasty too. Egyptian hieroglyphs began in the 1st dynasty, perhaps even earlier than that.