600,000 men....but there were women and children too......why no records?
2006-11-27 09:36:49 · 27 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Egyptians did record info about their "enemies"(though much of it is quite vague)......go back and do some research.
2006-11-27 10:03:11 · update #1
The problem is the dating of historians of when the Exodus took place. Many place the Exodus at 1400 BC, when it most likely took place one hundred years earlier in around 1500 BC. Imagine trying to look for evidence of WW2 a thousand years from now in the 1990s. There would be no record of it happening then. But if you go back just fifty years, there is WW2.
So, in short, the problem lies with historical dating.
Here is an article that talks about a documentary that aired this year on the History Channel about a man who went in search of the Exodus.
2006-11-27 09:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
See the ipuwar papyrus in Leiden. inspite of each and every thing the destruction and mayhem that preceded the parting of the sea and the shape itself, there in all probability weren't very many left to record something. it really is talked about that Egypt entered right into a touch bit a gloomy Age perfect around the time the Exodus exceeded off....it there any ask your self if a severe share of the inhabitants, which includes fairly some the military became destroyed and the rustic emptied of its wealth?
2016-11-29 20:45:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard on TV watching Exodus Decoded that they did find records of it in the time of Pharoah Atmose 1550 BCE.
This would be perfect with the bible. Exo.7:7 [ age 80 ]; 12:40.41 [ 430 years after the Promised Land covenant ]; is 857 years after the flood to Deut.34:7; 897 years after the flood. It is 1Ki.6:1 480 years to Solomon 1377 he has 36 [of 40 ] to 1413 after the flood, 3069 after Adam and 997 BCE is perfect history.
2006-11-28 07:04:07 · answer #3 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget that these few million people walked for 40 years in a desert. I figured out that if you walk 6 days a week at like 3 miles an hour, you can walk around the earth more than once if you have 40 years. They had to walk a few hundred miles.
2006-11-27 09:43:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
And what a lovely bum it is.
I believe it quite a bit less than "millions." Also note that we do not have anything even close to complete records with regard to any ancient society. The lack of Egyptian records of the Jewish exodus is, archaeologically speaking, of little significance.
2006-11-27 09:43:11 · answer #5 · answered by davidscottwoodruff 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no record of it during the reign of Ramses the great, but there is mention of an exodus in eqyptian history, hundreds of years before the reign of Ramses the great. There is an indication that that was the actual recording of the exodus. It may just be that the accepted belief of historians, that the pharoah mentioned in the Bible was Ramses, may be what is mistaken
2006-11-27 09:41:22 · answer #6 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not only a lack of records from Egyptians, but also from surrounding countries. You'd think that an extremely large group of people wandering around in the desert would garner some comment from the neighbors.
2006-11-27 09:39:05 · answer #7 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I just watched documentary on the Mayan Empire. They are learning to read Mayan glyphs. They found out that is was common for royal scribes and officials omit defeat in war from their historical records. So too with many ancient civilizations. They inflate their victories and minimize or delete records of their defeat. See the contrast of Sennacherib's defeat of Israel but his omission of defeat in Jerusalem.
2006-11-27 09:45:18 · answer #8 · answered by linniepooh 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Egyptians took very meticulous records about everything. Details on the crops each year. Recorded tidal activity in relationship in the Nile. However, they left out the small detail of over a million slaves exiting the country for a very good reason which you're about to ....
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2006-11-27 09:41:30 · answer #9 · answered by Laptop Jesus 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
According to the Biblical accounts, the Jews wreaked havoc on the Egyptians. If you believe that account to be true, then it makes sense that no records be made of a completely embarrassing stage in Egyptian history. However, I have not done any study to see if there are records or not...
2006-11-27 09:40:35 · answer #10 · answered by jdmack102 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋