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Or lack of evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Archaeology

Please don't assume bad intentions




This is where Wikipedia really fails. It makes a statement with huge implications, like:

A century of research by archaeologists and Egyptologists has found no evidence which can be directly related to the Exodus captivity and the escape and travels through the wilderness

Which dismisses a "century of research" based on a single little citation:

Meyers 2005, p. 5.

Which upon visiting the book, provides the same blanket statement at the bottom of the page, and is itself a citation to yet another external resource.

Did you even bother to investigate the "lack of evidence" claims yourself, or did you just assume the entire black hole of citations was correct?


Do you have any evidence for your claim?


Who said anything about bad?




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