Why don't the ancient Egyptians themselves, who, by the way, were meticulous record keepers...?

Question

...seem to remember 600,000 slaves telling them to take this job and shove it?

Answer 1

They did not have to keep records. All they had to do was go to the river and see all the chariots in the water.

Answer 2

For many years, it was presumed that in ancient Egypt, the Great Pyramids at Giza were built by many thousands of foreign slaves, toiling under very harsh conditions over a period of decades. Today, many scholars refute this picture of ancient Egypt, believing instead that they were built by the free Egyptians themselves, some perhaps as seasonal conscripts with other artisans consigned permanently to the projects. One must also consider just how the Egyptians would really control so many slaves in one location with the rudimentary weapons of the Old Kingdom.

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Answer 3

They were great record keepers, but there records have suffered over the long centuries. I'm an atheist, and certainly don't see the OT as anything but myth. This argument, however, seems a little weak.

Answer 4

Because its mythology. It never happened. Whether the Christians like the reality of that or not. Nobody in history ever recorded the crap the Christians keep saying happened. No mass exodus of Egyptian slaves was ever recorded by anyone, no Jesus was ever recorded in any Roman text anywhere (and considering the amount of trouble he caused them, you'd think they'd have recorded it somewhere), and China has never seen a massive flood so the world could not have been covered in water like they seem to think.

The whole thing is mythology.

Answer 5

this question consistently amuses the hell out of me. till Henry VIII (Anglican) and Martin Luther (Lutheran, then some 30,000 different sects, and counting) got here alongside, the Orthodox and Catholic churches have been the Christians. there have been no others. Catholics = Christians for 2000 years. Protestants = Christians for greater or less 500 years. And the only distinction between the Catholic (unique) bible and the protestant bible(s) of their multiple translations is that Martin Luther threw out many of the books the catholics had desperate to be the "inspired observe of God" decrease back interior the Council of Nicea interior the 4th century. All protestant bibles are derived from this unique source. i'm no longer even going to the touch the "what catholics do isn't interior the bible" one. The Trinity isn't interior the bible. "unique Sin" isn't interior the bible, that fluctuate into invented by Augustine (a catholic theologian) interior the 4th-5th century. The Rapture isn't interior the bible. The bible needless to say states Jesus is the "son" of "god" in some places, it relatively is asserted that the bible additionally says Jesus IS "god" in diverse places and the protestants are nonetheless combating over that. that's no longer a protection of the catholics, by the way. i'm agnostic, i think of all you adult adult males are combating over loads of made-up stuff without evidence. yet, in case you will combat among yourselves, please a minimum of attempt to get your historic info rapidly and your dogmas wisely pointed out as to source. in any different case, you in basic terms make yourselves look ridiculous. reward on your journey!

Answer 6

This is one of the problems with the exodus. There also is no record of the plagues, nor is there archaeological proof at any of the well know or identifiable sites of the exodus.

Not only is the exodus not recorded, but none of the other events i.e. 7 years of plenty and famine, the existence of any of the Hebrew slaves etc.

Answer 7

Or being covered in several miles of water during the flood.

Or the crushing defeat of the army as it followed the Israelites across the Red sea.


It just shows the dedication and stoicism of those Egyptian scribes that they just kept writing while all these things went on around them.

Answer 8

Well, something like that wouldn't really be looked upon well. So perhaps they didn't want to look bad for future generations?

On the over hand, you'd think atleast one account aside from the bible, which may or may not be factual (lol), would escape history for scholars to find today.

Answer 9

Because it never happened. Akhenaten did get kicked out of power for trying to establish monotheism in Egypt though, and when he was booted his followers went with him. The Egyptian god Thoth wrote the predecessor of the 10 commandments on the walls in Egypt with his own hands, and Akhenaten was very familiar with them. You can draw your own conclusions from there.

Answer 10

Ancient history was generally written by historians of the empires/nations/etc. themselves. They recorded what made their nation look good and ignored defeats or other things that would reflect badly on them. Since ultimately the Israelites were led out of Egypt, after having suffered 10 plagues that showed the helplessness of each one of their deities, that would clearly count as a defeat and not be recorded.

Answer 11

The Egyptians did not believe in God, that is why the Pharoah constantly challenged Moses.

Would you record defeat from a God that you did not believe in?

The plagues and death of the "first born" of the Egyptians was a very embarrassing situation, one I believe they would not want everyone to know about.