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THE EXODUS: FACT OR FICTION?
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The story of Moses and the Exodus is one of the Old Testament's most powerful epics. But were the Israelites ever in Egypt and did the Exodus really take place as the Bible states? Most scholars today would say no to both of these questions. The reason is that there is simply no evidence of a large population of Western-Asiatics living in the eastern delta during the New Kingdom, nor any evidence of a conquest of the Promised Land at the end of the Late Bronze Age. David believes that the reason for this lack of evidence is that archaeologists have been looking for the Israelites in the right places - but in entirely the wrong time. |
David Rohl is the author of the best-selling history book A TEST OF TIME: THE BIBLE FROM MYTH TO HISTORY (1995) and presenter of the internationally acclaimed three-part documentary series 'Pharaohs and Kings' which first broadcast in September 1995. His second best-seller, LEGEND: THE GENESIS OF CIVILISATION (1998), has since formed the basis of documentary programmes entitled 'In Search of Eden' and 'The Egyptian Genesis'. David holds a degree in Ancient History and Egyptology (University College London) and was awarded the prestigious W. F. Masom History Research Scholarship by the University of London. He is currently President of the Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences (ISIS), Editor of the Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum (JACF) and Honorary President of the Sussex Egyptology Society (SES). He excavated at Kadesh-on-the-Orontes (Tell Nebi Mend) in Syria during the 1990s for the Institute of Archaeology, London, and is currently Field Director of the Eastern Desert Survey in Egypt, as well as being Editor of the Eastern Desert Survey Report.
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