In before "Exodus never happened cuz Wikipedia."
>The Delta is an alluvial fan of mud deposited through many millennia by the annual flooding of the Nile; it has no source of stone within it. Mud, mud and wattle, and mud-brick structures were of limited duration and use, and were repeatedly leveled and replaced, and very largely merged once more with the mud of the fields. . . . The mud hovels of brickfield slaves and humble cultivators have long since gone back to their mud origins, never to be seen again. . . . And, as pharaohs never monumentalize defeats on temple walls, no record of the successful exit of a large bunch of foreign slaves (with loss of a full chariot squadron) would ever have been memorialized by any king, in temples in the Delta or anywhere else. On these matters, once and for all, biblicists must shed their naïve attitudes and cease demanding ‘evidence’ that cannot exist." p. 246 (Kenneth Kitchen is one of the most preeminent scholars of ancient Egypt, having authored hundreds of journal articles and books.)
Most of what we know about history comes from written reports of eyewitnesses. Ask Ed Gibbon. The Kuzari constitutes a singularity of eyewitness proof. It is, by proxy, evidence of the Exodus. By what meta-criterion do gaps in the fossil record (heh) take logical precedence over the eyewitness testimony of a VAST group? The skeptic can't just assume it. History and archaeology are not sciences in the way physics is.
In before "Exodus never happened cuz Wikipedia."
>The Delta is an alluvial fan of mud deposited through many millennia by the annual flooding of the Nile; it has no source of stone within it. Mud, mud and wattle, and mud-brick structures were of limited duration and use, and were repeatedly leveled and replaced, and very largely merged once more with the mud of the fields. . . . The mud hovels of brickfield slaves and humble cultivators have long since gone back to their mud origins, never to be seen again. . . . And, as pharaohs never monumentalize defeats on temple walls, no record of the successful exit of a large bunch of foreign slaves (with loss of a full chariot squadron) would ever have been memorialized by any king, in temples in the Delta or anywhere else. On these matters, once and for all, biblicists must shed their naïve attitudes and cease demanding ‘evidence’ that cannot exist." p. 246 (Kenneth Kitchen is one of the most preeminent scholars of ancient Egypt, having authored hundreds of journal articles and books.)
Most of what we know about history comes from written reports of eyewitnesses. Ask Ed Gibbon. The Kuzari constitutes a singularity of eyewitness proof. It is, by proxy, evidence of the Exodus. By what meta-criterion do gaps in the fossil record (heh) take logical precedence over the eyewitness testimony of a VAST group? The skeptic can't just assume it. History and archaeology are not sciences in the way physics is.