On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Charles Brown <
charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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CB: Not that Jim said there were....but there were no pyramids in Egypt nor monumental architecture anywhere in 10,000 BC. Pyramids were built starting maybe 2650 BC. ( Quick Study bar chart on "Western Civilization 1")
When Egyptian civ arose, they didn't "capture slaves". This is a Mesopotamian, Greek thing from later.
The Israelites were not captured by the Egyptians. They were invited into Egypt when Joseph became the Phaorah's "chief economist". Then they started to outgrow the Egyptian in population ( See Genesis). When they didn't institute population control, they were put under discipline. When they left with Moses,they weren't escaping , but removed.
this is all speculative. we've got no extra-biblical evidence for any of it.
since we're being all historically accurate and stuff . . . :-)
j