In class today we talked about the importance of archaeology to providing evidence to the historicity of the Bible. Archaeology provides concrete evidence, isn’t quite as impacted as bias as analysis of the text, and archaeological evidence is from the time period that the text was written whereas the texts are copies. We also analyzed the historicity of Exodus. In order for large numbers of people to cross the Red Sea, it would take at least a week. There are indications that the crossing of the Sea of Reeds may have been a less unusual if no less important event. Archaeological evidence confirms the settling of large numbers of people in previously uninhabited Canaan. This supports the idea of Exodus.
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