Did the Exodus really happen?

There is no evidence to support it, and much evidence against it...so it's not at all likely to have actually happened.

Even the majority of christian/jewish scholars (the honest ones) consider the bible exodus story "metaphor, not fact."

Peace.

It has some underlying truth, since the Hebrew religion combines Egyptian and Sumerian concepts and there was a god named Yahweh associated in a mountain near where the Hebrews were supposedly wandering. However, there isn't any evidence of 100 thousand slaves suddenly departing Egypt. The evidence suggests that the pyramids were mostly built by wage laborers.

Freud surmised that Moses was a priest in the court of Pharaoh Ahkenaton and some people say that he was Ahkenaton.

The founding of Israel and the story of the Exodus can be seen as a metaphor for a proletarian revolution that seems to have occurred in the middle east during that time period.

Well I really happened and yet my ancestors did not leave ruins and signposts, or any other evidence of their wanderings. There are a few graves here and there and since some of those are also not marked, I suppose anyone could question whether a person in my family traveled to any place or did anything. I personally have visited many states throughout the United States and outside of telling friends and relatives not doubt in a hundred years no one will know if I had been to any of those places, met any of those people, ate, drank, or did anything else.

My point is much of history is passed down by word of mouth or written account only without leaving physical evidence. Even to this day archaeologists are still finding civilizations that existed eons ago so there may still be evidence found.

When there are writings other than Biblical that back up history (of which there is) then it is an event that did take place. Go to jcsm.org under "proof that the exodus happened". There is ample proof.

In all honesty, probably not.

There is no archaeological evidence to support it, nor is it mentioned in any Egyptian records. And the Egyptians were absolutely obsessed about recording everything, from who brought two piles of wheat from whom to big geopolitical events.

Edit: Onyx - I think you should read your own link. It has plenty of stuff, but despite its name cites no evidence for the Exodus.

Edit2: byHisgrace - Are you aware that your link also does not cite any archaeological evidence for the Exodus? If there is evidence, then it sure must be difficult to get it into the Internet.

Yes it did.

http://www.leocordia.com/exodus/cont2.shtml

I dont understand why some people who lack faith would automatically with complete assurance say that Exodus is complete hogwash and it never happened, without really looking at the evidence... But I guess thats what categorizes blind faith.

http://www.bibleandscience.com/archaeology/exodus....

If a century and a half of diligent searching by biblical archaeologists has turned up zilch a reasonable man could conclude that the biblical account is a whopper.

Hogwash

Absolutely!

This is definitive PROOF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIUh66maLw