CruisinJo214 t1_j3rraei wrote on January 10, 2023 at 5:05 PM

Reply to comment by Formal-Equivalent510 in Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls and biblical archaeology by MeatballDom

That’s making the assumption there is a god that did something… seems more likely a tale spread around the Hebrew people to unify them against a common enemy, the Egyptians.

Uriah1024 t1_j3t365o wrote on January 10, 2023 at 9:52 PM

How does that work given the Egyptian's ties to their own religious beliefs? I'm not saying you're wrong, but it seems like an odd dismissal when all accounts seem to suggest the Egyptians were quite religious, and the Hebrew's God is competing.

Your phrasing seems to apply modern perspective upon ancient beliefs.

CruisinJo214 t1_j3t6l97 wrote on January 10, 2023 at 10:13 PM

Egyptian Religious beliefs historically probably didn’t play in, because the history itself probably didn’t happen. The exodus from Egypt was said to be caused by god’s plagues on the Egyptians. Thay is a Hebrew myth, not an Egyptian one… Egyptian religions probably didn’t care much about other monotheistic religions of foreigners.

DukeAttreides t1_j3s04wm wrote on January 10, 2023 at 5:58 PM

Nah. In the ancient world, if something happened, a god did it. The question on everybody's mind was "what one"? I think the point stands.

It's not an affirmative point, mind you. Just enough to level out the burden of proof a bit.