Through the methods of the “new archeology”, new ideas were conveyed by Finklestein and Silberman. These methods include looking at

The story of Moses also carries a 7th century feeling to it, being that his confrontation with the Egyptian pharaohs is very similar to that of confrontations between King Josiah and the Pharoe Necho (pg 71). Due to the Egyptian history that is either depicted, or just as importantly, not depicted (such as names) helps strengthen the authors view that there was no real Exodus, nor a Passover on a single date, but rather it was centuries of people uniting together against powers that they did not wish to be part of or wanted to fight against.

The first aspect of the Bible in which Finklestein and Silberman discuss is the era of the patriarchs. Archeologists have been very unsuccessful in proving the era of the patriarchs due to the fact that the dates and backgrounds do not match those of real history. For one, the dates of the patriarchs (such as birth and death dates) are not reasonable. For example, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all are given life spans of well over one hundred years each (pg 35). Not only is a life span of over one hundred years quite rare nowadays; but for those time periods the life span was no longer than 30 or 40 I’m sure. Two parts of the Bible indicate that Exodus took place four hundred and eighty years before construction of the temple of Jerusalem and the fact that Israelites were enslaved four hundred and thirty years before Exodus concludes that two hundred years are overlapped in the lifespan of the patriarchs, concluding that it was 2100 BC when Abraham left for Canaan. Also, at the time of Genesis there is no proven population movement in which the “Amorite migration” occurred. Another contradiction with the time of the patriarchs includes the mentioning of using “gum, balm and myrrh” which were really not traded with the Arabians until the 7th century BC, conflicting with the fact that the actual even were supposed to happen hundreds of years earlier. In fact, those items were supposedly carried by the beas

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