We are all familiar with the exodus story. I'm curious what today's Egyptians say about it? Do they have any records of the events back then? Maybe even pictures on walls of some ancient pyramid or something?

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I don't know the current status but a few years ago some Egyptians were preparing to file a lawsuit against the Jewish people seeking compensation for the expropriation of Egyptian gold during the Exodus. There is an article about it here.

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Long story short:

If there is no archaeological or hieroglyphic evidence, then the Bible is clearly mistaken, and the Exodus account is reduced to a fantasy of Ezra's redactors.

If there is archaeological or hieroglyphic evidence, then it was planted and or fabricated by Christian scribes sometime between the reign of Constantine and the Renaissance.

At least that's how it would play out in the media.

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Joshua Wiseman
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those are just jealous Arabs trying to embezzle Jewish wealth.

Any moron knows that the original Egyptians weren't Arabs, but were sons of Mizraim. Arabs like to deem themselves sons of Ishmael. The Arabs can't have it both ways. They need to make up their minds. Why don't they simply come out of the closet and start a war.

you sound like a liberal professor

I am unaware of any such records of the exodus incidents that have survived outside the Bible, apart from extremely fragmentary evidence (succeptible to more than one interpretation). The Egyptians were selective in how they portrayed history, leaving the exploits, obscuring the disasters. In the case of Akenaton, they attempted to obliterate his memory entirely. So, the disasters of the Exodus would not have made good fodder for tomb paintings, carvings of pharaoh's exploits, etc.

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I don't think they've got a very good claim to Pharaoh's gold considering it was their ancestors who slaughtered and enslaved all the real Egyptians in the 7th c.

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I heard about this lawsuit a few years ago, and personally, I think it's rather funny how they want to DENY it happened but yet want to SUE the Jewish people for gold taken...they can't have it both ways..and if they admit that it's true then they must look seriously at all other aspects of the Scripture..

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we call it Arab propaganda.

Egyptians cannot even be honest about the history of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

From 2003-2004 I attended Marine Corps Command and Staff College. We had about 40 Officers from various countries around the world, including about a dozen from the Middle East. I sat next to an Officer from the UAE throughout my time there. He loved America and even attended college in the U.S. Of course, he didn't understand some of our policies but, then again, acknowledged that many Middle Eastern countries are more culturally blind about how to sell their message than Americans are.

Anyhow, every Foreign Officer was required to give a country brief. It always consisted of the same elements: History, Geography, Economics, etc. They were usually pretty good and some were really funny. The Officer from Israel quipped that even though God gave them a land flowing with milk and honey, it would have been nice to get some oil in the bargain too.

The Saudi Officer's history was most interesting of all. He began the history of Saudi Arabia with Adam - or whatever Adam's name is in the Koran and then traced it generally through to Ibrahim (aka Abraham). He recounted how Ibrahim took his son Ishmael up to a mountain in Saudi Arabia at the command of God to sacrifice him but God stayed his hand at the last moment. Everyone found it interesting that he was recounting the Koran as real history. Part of me thought: "Too bad none of these guys would ever treat the Holy Scriptures with the same respect to trust them as real history." The funny thing is that one of the Officers afterward said: "Hey, that story is just like in the Bible...", to which I replied "Yeah, but it was Isaac that God had commanded Abraham to sacrifice and it was not done in Saudi Arabia." Those details had been lost on him.

Anyway, it was really interesting having the Saudi Arabian and Egyptian Officers in my Terrorism seminar that I took for an elective. Listening to them politically rationalize a Palestinian strapping on a bomb vest while saying that the Koran condemns it at the same time was very confusing to me. I also got a kick out of the way the Egyptian Officer said the word "Terrorist". Whenever he pronounced it, it came out as "Tourist".

OK, so what's this got to do with anything? The Egyptian Officer's country brief was very interesting. That country, to its credit, is one of the very few countries that has maintained a national identity for thousands of years. Talk about a lot of history to recount. In fact, Egyptians are not quite like other Arabs in that regard. Egyptians derisively call other nations in the Middle East "Tribes with a flag", which is very apt. Arabs don't have a history of nation-states.

Well, he culminated his brief with none other than the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. The way he presented it, though, was mind boggling. He presented basically the first 24 or so hours to the point of the furthest Egyptian advance and rapid military success. His brief basically ended up to the point where the Israelis handed their bottoms to them and threw them back beyond the Suez Canal. If you believed that guy, you would have thought that the Egyptians had won the war. The brief ended and all of us were sitting there with our mouths agape thinking: "Who does this guy think he's kidding?"

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