[blam]

"I am becoming more and more convinced that the Exodus never happened, at least not on the terms we once believed. "

So, what are you ideas on the Exodus. I believe it happened but, in 1628BC.

[Dog Gone]

My theory is that the Jews came out of the Iraqi/Saudi region, following the Santorini volcanic explosion which provides the "pillar of fire by night and pillar of cloud by day" reference in the Old Testament.

The directions line up for one thing. And we do have a handle on the timing.

If the Jews were in Egypt and followed those "signs", they would have been in the sea, not Caanan.

Then, there is the fact that nobody has been able to come up with any evidence whatsoever of a Jewish slave population in Egypt ever. Not Egyptologists, not Bibliogists. Nobody. And the Egyptians kept good records.