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You've got me thinking now The story is part of Jewish history, and as we know, they're not a mythological people. As far as I know (it's not really my thing,

You've got me thinking now The story is part of Jewish history, and as we know, they're not a mythological people. As far as I know (it's not really my thing, and I'm too tired to do any research), there doesn't seem to be much doubt that they were slaves to the Egyptians at some point in time. So - Jews in Egypt, then out of Egypt, and they kept a written history which obviously did exist at some point in time, and did not exist at some point prior. Does any one know what the gap is between the start of the Jewish nation and their recorded history?

sp332 16y ago
Well, the nation of Israel pointed to Abraham as the founder, which is about 1900-1800 BC. But the story of the Exodus was in the time of Moses, around 1200 BC. The written history (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers) are traditionally attributed to Moses himself, although Wikipedia gives a range of possible dates up to the late 5th century BC. Chronology: Abraham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham#Abraham_and_the_biblical_chronology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham#Abraham_and_the_biblica... Moses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Death Exodus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Authorship_and_date http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Authorship_and_date
- cubicle67 16y ago
  cool, thanks