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6/27/2025, 9:34:37 PM No.17796385
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I really want to know what was the real archeological history was with these Israelites and were they actually what the bible claims they were?

I've researched this much on the subject and I found out the following
>Absolutely zero evidence of anything happening the book of Exodus in real life, no evidence of the patriarchs such as Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
>No evidence that the Israelites were ever in Egypt, let alone enslaved
>No evidence of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua
>Jerusalem by the iron age was only a tiny hill country town and never a capital
>Earliest mentioning of the Israelites as a people or nation was on some Egyptian stone marble in the late 13th century bc, nothing discovered prior to that date
>God was originally Yahweh and then in before was a god named El and was part of a pagan cult of the Canaanite pantheon
>Israelite kingdom only showed up in the 10th or 9th century bc
>Regularly practiced Yahwehism where God had a consort named asherah
>Only started actually being monotheistic after returning from exile in Babylon and establishing a second temple

Does this mean that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are worshipping a god that has its roots in typical Canaanite polytheism? And therefore false if you were to guess?
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:37:00 AM No.17797001
>>17796385 (OP)
This channel is dedicated to answering such questions:
https://www.youtube.com/@ancientegyptandthebible/videos
It definitely changed my position from "it's all fiction", to "at least it has some basis in reality.
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6/28/2025, 2:38:08 AM No.17797008
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:49:07 AM No.17797029
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>>17796385 (OP)
>Does this mean that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are worshipping a god that has its roots in typical Canaanite polytheism?
The oldest that we have for the Israelites and their god, potentially, is an Egyptian carving discussing the 'Shasu of YHW', with Shasu probably translating to 'wanderer/raider/nomad'.
This doesn't tell us anything about their culture or their religion, but it does make it known that these guys probably led to the Israelites later, and they were at that time just another Iron Age raiding nomad group on the Egyptian frontier.
YHWH and Baal, not El, are the closest gods in the earliest stages. So close that they're probably derived from the same protosemitic deity. El on the other hand was more of an overlord deity that didn't really get involved in day-to-day stuff and who was generally older and more geriatric rather than a warrior in his prime like YHWH and Baal probably were thought of. In contrast, YHWH and Baal both were closely involved henotheistic gods.

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