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The Exodus Is a Foundation Myth — Here's the Evidence | Lester L Grabbe PhD

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What really happened at the beginning of Israel?

In this MythVision episode, Derek Lambert sits down with renowned biblical scholar Dr. Lester L. Grabbe to examine the historical origins of Israel and compare the biblical narratives with archaeology, ancient inscriptions and the wider history of the ancient Near East.

The conversation begins with one of the Bible's most important figures: Abraham. Was he a historical person, or could he be a theological foundation character whose story developed much later?

Dr. Grabbe explains why the language of Genesis appears to belong to a much later period than the time traditionally associated with Abraham, and why archaeological evidence creates serious problems for treating the biblical stories as straightforward history.

The discussion then moves into one of the Bible's most famous stories: the Exodus.

Was there really an Exodus of millions of Israelites from Egypt as described in the Bible? What does Egyptian history tell us? What does archaeology reveal about the supposed route through the wilderness? And why does the evidence fail to match the biblical account?

The episode also explores:

• The historical origins of Israel
• Abraham and biblical anachronisms
• Moses and the Exodus tradition
• The Merneptah Stele and the first mention of Israel
• The Philistines and their role in Israel's development
• Israel's Canaanite origins
• Genesis and Mesopotamian mythology
• The Babylonian Enuma Elish
• The Epic of Gilgamesh and the biblical Flood
• Leviathan and the Ugaritic god Lotan
• The ancient Canaanite pantheon
• El, Baal and Yahweh
• Evidence that early Israelites may have worshiped multiple gods
• Deuteronomy 32 and the divine council
• The development of Israelite monotheism

This is a fascinating look at what we can actually know about ancient Israel — and where the biblical narrative appears to differ from the historical and archaeological evidence.

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20 Comments

@ready1fire1aim1 1 month ago

My favorite part of the Ba'al Cycle is when Yam becomes Yaw.

He's still Yaw to this day.

@mikeyrambo2742 8 days ago

Another amazing video, I hope to see you on again

@DebPercy 1 month ago

Great episode. i hope you have this guest on again. I love it when he goes into the details.

@theresamcpherson7352 1 month ago

Good program today, thank you both.

@RobertEdwards-v1k 1 month ago

The most relivent subject and topic in history is awareness of motives past and present each and every individual has their own , needing and wanting different for everyone, personal experiences and circumstances, cause and effect, free will the beginning of understanding or confusion, are we all the same if not what makes the difference, motive a instresting paradox up there with consciousness

@marymagnuson5191 1 month ago

The Summarians are a whole lot more interesting.

@nicoledubois3638 1 month ago

Why did the Jewish population that left Egypt, did not take the same route they had taken them to get to Egypt to begin with?

@vonpffthausen 1 month ago

What about the work of David rohl

@pamelaadam9207 1 month ago

My hb prof at Aberdeen back in the 90s tried to get our class to see the myth of the exodus but some of the class who were literalusts had hissy fits

@jack_0U812 1 month ago

Great episode. I especially like connecting parts of the Bible to other peoples stories. The history is all amazing to learn and so much more of ancient story telling and the evolution of these stories show up in newer books like the Bible. The "bloopers" are pretty fun to learn as Abraham from a city named after someone who does not yet exist is an obvious one. I am the opinion that Isaiah who supposed lived in Jerusalem when the Israelites were captives in Babylon actually lived after the return and told the story of the sufferer (Israelite people) and how their captors (Babylonians) were conquered by Cyrus the Great who was from Persia and who allowed the Israelites to return to Jerusalem. Christians today don't take the entire story and say that this is a prophecy of Jesus the Messiah but it was the story of Cyrus who did conquer the captors and send the Israelites to the Promise Land (Jerusalem). Anyways, that's what I think of Isaiah and believe Matthew actually mis-understood this as a Jesus prophecy.

@billcook4768 1 month ago

I don’t know about the rest of it, but I saw a documentary and the talking donkey story from Numbers is true. Surprisingly, the donkey sounded a lot like Eddie Murphy.

@GreenJay-o2x 3 weeks ago

Manna throughout the desert IS a plant the migrating 12 tribal workforce ate on the way to Babylon.

@davedobyn266 1 month ago

If you don’t know you don’t know

@charleshardes 4 weeks ago

Anakin?

@zoltanvonbozzay9678 1 month ago (edited)

So what?.. There are a lot of small regions and civilizations that are not mentioned by other major civilizations in the surrounding area, like Ugarit for example, yet we found by archeology that they were real.

@norfsidegunn 3 weeks ago

33:31 bad example here man they 100 percent jacked that shit. But of course if robin thicke is your “friend” then why would you say otherwise lol

@SPPACATR 1 month ago

The 400 years of silence is interesting, wouldn't that be a evidence?

@JacobTree-i2e 1 month ago

The solar system was the universe to them, they didn't know star distances or how big the universe was. Marduk is mars and tiamat is Venus.

@robertalexanderho5268 3 weeks ago

Abraham is symbolic of the Aries age.... On the procession of the equinox. Alot of the Nudian stories are related to the procession.
For example we are at the end of the Piscean age entering into the Aquarian age, and why the Jews believe we are in the end of times... Meaning the end of the mega cycle. Each cycle lasts about 2,400 years....