EVEN MANY Jews today consider the account of their nation’s creation nothing more than a myth, a story invented to justify Israel’s claim to the land–and the mutual hostility with its Arab neighbors. After all, we’re told by archaeologists that there is no evidence that the Hebrews were ever in Egypt. A mass migration like the one described in the Book of Exodus would have left some traces, right?
Egyptologist David Rohl, whose work is featured in the film Patterns of Evidence: Exodus, challenges the consensus view. Analyzing the evidence without the preconceptions that have locked generations of scholars into a timeline that is hundreds of years out of sync, David shows how the evidence for the Exodus, the conquest of Canaan, and the rise of the kingdom of David has been right in front of them all along.
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