these "slaves" who brought plagues and doom, and their leader Moses who escaped with his people, parted the seas and killed off an Pharaoh and his army?
I would think such monumental events would leave their mark on a people, yet... nothing. Outside of the bible that is.
2007-07-15 02:44:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus M: please point us all to these "old records"?
2007-07-15 02:49:19 · update #1
Jim: you are asking me to believe a pharaoh and his army vanished, and NOBODY commented on that because they were vain?
2007-07-15 02:51:51 · update #2
Never happened.
2007-07-15 02:47:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Egyptians also have no historical records concerning the construction of the pyramids at Giza. All that exists is speculation and theory. Even the Great Sphinx, located on the same plateau next to the Great Pyramid, appears to be far older the Egyptian department of antiquities suggests, by about 15,000 years. It is possible that these structures are much older than is commonly assumed, predating any Egyptian civilization by over 10,000 years. In other words, the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx were already ancient by the time Egyptians arrived in the Nile Valley.
As for Moses and the parting of the Red Sea there are no historical records because this is all myth, not history.
2007-07-15 09:51:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you're hoping for a clipping from the Egyptian News-Gazette reporting a spate of unusual weather--e.g., partly sunny with occasional torrents of fire--I have to disappoint you. Apart from the Old Testament and related sources, there are only a few surviving records of any sort from the Mosaic era, mostly in the form of inscribed stone slabs called stelae. There's little historical evidence to establish the existence of anybody from the period, except for those who happened to be head honcho at some point.
2007-07-15 09:56:12 · answer #3 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One field eaten by locusts becomes a plague. A horde walking through a reed filled marsh becomes the parting of the red sea. It's the nature of humans to exaggerate their victories and minimize or even forget their losses.
2007-07-15 09:51:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you want to keep records of your slaves brining plagues and destruction upon you? Would you want anybody to know that all of your slaves escaped? Egyptians were known for being a very proud and vain society, one that would not tolerate black marks on their records, so they would erase the marks.
2007-07-15 09:50:25 · answer #5 · answered by Jim 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Two things come to mind.
The best library the world has ever seen was in Alexandria, Egypt. It was burned to the ground by invaders.
Secondly, history is defined by the winners or those who are left to write it. Those who are left never discuss their failures.
2007-07-15 13:07:25 · answer #6 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the events didn't happen. Thus, not documented anyplace but in the work of friction that you mentioned.
2007-07-15 09:47:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Who knows, maybe those events didn't take place.
2007-07-15 09:48:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are old records but you failed to have your search on it.
jtm
2007-07-15 09:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
same old story...they don't care...your evidence is meaningless to them...
2007-07-15 09:47:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋