Gad Barnea

In order to disagree with someone, you have to come later, right? You have to know about it. So the biblical version of the Exodus narrative is polemicizing against a lot of these Greek sources and trying to correct them and to protect the Jewish people from some of these interpretations that seem to be offensive to the Jewish people. And so that we do find in the Bible.

So the Exodus story is clearly later and clearly reacting to many of these Greek sources. And that's a good reason to say this is mythological because you have so many different Moseses And you have at least four different Exodus narratives. And the biblical version of that just polemicizes against all of these other sources. And so it comes later and it's eclectic.

So the Exodus story is clearly later and clearly reacting to many of these Greek sources. And that's a good reason to say this is mythological because you have so many different Moseses And you have at least four different Exodus narratives. And the biblical version of that just polemicizes against all of these other sources. And so it comes later and it's eclectic.

So the Exodus story is clearly later and clearly reacting to many of these Greek sources. And that's a good reason to say this is mythological because you have so many different Moseses And you have at least four different Exodus narratives. And the biblical version of that just polemicizes against all of these other sources. And so it comes later and it's eclectic.

It looks at all of these different directions.

It looks at all of these different directions.

It looks at all of these different directions.

so um yeah so that's um i think a very compelling argument it's not from a lot of people say well moses didn't exist and the exodus didn't happen because of archaeological reasons we don't find any archaeology to support moses existing and and and the exodus of the people out of egypt yeah but that's an argument from silence and that's true and it's certainly true and it's important to take into account but um but ultimately people can say well you know

so um yeah so that's um i think a very compelling argument it's not from a lot of people say well moses didn't exist and the exodus didn't happen because of archaeological reasons we don't find any archaeology to support moses existing and and and the exodus of the people out of egypt yeah but that's an argument from silence and that's true and it's certainly true and it's important to take into account but um but ultimately people can say well you know

so um yeah so that's um i think a very compelling argument it's not from a lot of people say well moses didn't exist and the exodus didn't happen because of archaeological reasons we don't find any archaeology to support moses existing and and and the exodus of the people out of egypt yeah but that's an argument from silence and that's true and it's certainly true and it's important to take into account but um but ultimately people can say well you know

They were nomads. We might have somehow missed that particular point in time. So archaeology is very convincing up to a point, but then it's an argument from science. What I'm showing in my research is that – and I put archaeology aside even though, again, it's important, but it's simply not a – it's not an absolutely 1% convincing argument.

They were nomads. We might have somehow missed that particular point in time. So archaeology is very convincing up to a point, but then it's an argument from science. What I'm showing in my research is that – and I put archaeology aside even though, again, it's important, but it's simply not a – it's not an absolutely 1% convincing argument.

They were nomads. We might have somehow missed that particular point in time. So archaeology is very convincing up to a point, but then it's an argument from science. What I'm showing in my research is that – and I put archaeology aside even though, again, it's important, but it's simply not a – it's not an absolutely 1% convincing argument.

I think when you look at the Greek sources and you see how – How many different views, I mean, even within all of these sources that I mentioned, there are later generations that amplify these stories about Moses and add data to it later on. So you have a lot of different, I mean, even several generations of these stories developing in parallel to the biblical one. Oh, wow.

I think when you look at the Greek sources and you see how – How many different views, I mean, even within all of these sources that I mentioned, there are later generations that amplify these stories about Moses and add data to it later on. So you have a lot of different, I mean, even several generations of these stories developing in parallel to the biblical one. Oh, wow.

I think when you look at the Greek sources and you see how – How many different views, I mean, even within all of these sources that I mentioned, there are later generations that amplify these stories about Moses and add data to it later on. So you have a lot of different, I mean, even several generations of these stories developing in parallel to the biblical one. Oh, wow.

I mean, we're talking about a very, very rich generation. about a person, a very well-known person called Moses, not necessarily the biblical Moses, although he's always associated with the Jews in some way, shape, or form. But sometimes he's associated with the Jews in a very offensive way. So, for example, he's depicted as a leper. And he's depicted as a leper.

I mean, we're talking about a very, very rich generation. about a person, a very well-known person called Moses, not necessarily the biblical Moses, although he's always associated with the Jews in some way, shape, or form. But sometimes he's associated with the Jews in a very offensive way. So, for example, he's depicted as a leper. And he's depicted as a leper.

I mean, we're talking about a very, very rich generation. about a person, a very well-known person called Moses, not necessarily the biblical Moses, although he's always associated with the Jews in some way, shape, or form. But sometimes he's associated with the Jews in a very offensive way. So, for example, he's depicted as a leper. And he's depicted as a leper.

And the people, the Jewish people are a people of leper, according to this Greek, to some of these Greek sources. And that was, of course, offensive to the Jewish people. And within the Torah, they polemicize against it. They fight against that idea. And they say, well, and that's why in the Torah you see so much about leprosy. There's so much dealing with leprosy and dealing with keeping pure.