Too bad the majority of Archeologists disagree with this guy.

While it is possible that some Hebrews left Egypt, it was certainly NOT as the Bible describes.  There was not "millions" of them, and they didn't carry off the "wealth" of Egypt with the either.  Maybe just a few hundred left with their possessions.  The Jews are well known for exaggerating the Truth and embellishing stories, just go to New York and spend sometime with them.  You'll see!   

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Judaism/2004/12/Did-The-Exodus-Really-Happen.aspx

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_there_no_archaeological_evidence_of_the_Israelites_during_the_Exodus?#slide=6

Did the Exodus Really Happen?

Knowing the Exodus is not a literal historical account does not ultimately change our connection to each other or to God.
 We have found Sinai evidence of other people who predated the Israelites, and it is highly improbable that 600,000 men crossed the desert 2,500 years ago without leaving a shard of pottery or a Hebrew carving.  (Together with women and children, that makes a couple of million, who could actually fill the distance between Egypt and Israel by standing in line.)  One rabbi quoted to me the mystical tradition that one tribe was deputized to clean up every trace, which at least shows the Jewish tradition's unease with Sinai's preternaturally clean slate.

However, the Archeological conclusions are not based primarily on the absence of Sinai evidence. Rather they are based upon the study of settlement patterns in Israel itself.  Surveys of ancient settlements -- pottery remains and so forth -- make it clear that there simply was no great influx of people around the time of the Exodus (given variously as between 1500-1200 BCE).  Therefore, not the wandering, but the arrival alerts us to the fact that the biblical Exodus is not a literal depiction. In Israel at that time, there was no sudden change in the kind or the volume of pottery being made.  (If people suddenly arrived after hundreds of years in Egypt, their cups and dishes would look very different from native Canaanites'.)  There was no population explosion.  Most archeologists conclude that the Israelites lived largely in Canaan over generations, instead of leaving and then immigrating back to Canaan.


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