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Tsinava posted:A lot of people believe that Exodus is historically accurate and not a giant passive aggressive lie. there are some interesting parallels between the exodus story and Akhenaten, a pharaoh in the 1300s BC who tried to turn egypt monotheistic, including disbanding all of the (rich and powerful) priesthoods to other egyptian deities. After his death his whole family, priesthood and followers were presumably killed/exiled, his city was abandoned, and the whole incident was so thoroughly purged from history that it was entirely forgotten until the ruins of his city and his tomb were discovered in the 1800s. In addition to monotheism/mass exile there are some similarities between early psalms and writings in his tomb, and stuff like that. Given that his successors were quite thorough at deleting the whole incident from the historical record it's all really speculative but it's fun to think about
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