What objective evidence do you have the jews were slaves in egypt.

@xenoview There is none.

@xenoview, @DenoPenno [britannica.com]

Today, historians agree that Moses' people were the descendants of these slaves. And here is the evidence for their supposition. On blocks of stone found on the Sinai peninsula, we can see carvings that resemble the Hebrew script - they are quite different to the hieroglyphs of the Egyptians. The writing provides evidence of an independent culture, and several historians believe that the images carved in the stone prove that these people were the slaves of the Egyptians. And this is also the story that the Bible tells. Hebrew people labored in their droves to build the spectacular pyramids. Because the slaves were an invaluable work force, it was in the state's best interests to keep them alive. But they were made very much aware who wielded the power. Moses was one of these workers. He, and a chance event, changed history.

@Word No translation of the script?

@xenoview I don't have one, when you get it please feel free to share it

@DenoPenno It is quite likely that there was a perminant flow of escaped slaves out of Egypt. Who would have been forced to join the shepherd peoples living in the deserts to the East. That was almost bound to create the belief in those people, that they were the decendents of Egyption slaves, even though there would always be a dwindeling percent of native heritage. It is almost certain that on many occassions those desert peoples would have tried to invade or steal land in the Fertile Crescent, and they would sometimes succeed. The whole story is probably therefore a much simplified version of a long and complex series of events which took place over centuries. A simplification which is exactly that which tends to happen to history as it changes into folklore.

@Fernapple The problem here folks is that historians do not agree. It is as if you are all making it up. Adam and Eve, Abraham, and Moses are just names in stories that are in a book. Zero evidence of them. Also no evidence of Egyptian Hebrew slaves.

@DenoPenno I wholly agree, here is certainly no Biblical evidence for Egyptian Hebrew slaves, Hebrew may not even have been an idea then, but there is considerable evidence for slaves in general escaping into the desert. Including reports of outlaw slaves being a problem to and raiding into Egypt. Also don't forget that Egypt may have been used as a catch all term for all the countries to the south of the Fertile crescent, so that in the vague folk memory it could mean Arabia etc.

I am not saying that this is history, simply that some things are bound to happen, such as some of the people migrating from South America to the USA, are almost certainly going to go through Mexico. And so some migrants from South America are almost bound to be misnamed as migrants from Mexico. So some of the migrants from the deserts to the south of the Fertile Crescent are almost bound to have a vague memory of Egyptian decent. Egypt was just the big country and great power to the South, anyone with no more than a vague folk memory of their ancestry was almost bound to say. "We came from Egypt." even if they came from Ethiopia, Arabia or were natives of the deserts. After all very few white Americans are of British decent, not even those in the first thirteen colonies, they came from all over Europe, but many in the past especially would say that they were the English Americans.

@Fernapple my daughter recently found one line of ancestry that places me as a decent of a king of England. I don't think my daughter is lying about the ancestry research, but she has yet to give me a copy of the geneology. I can't even get her to tell me which king it was. That's just how my daughter is right now. On the other branch, I know I have other family specifically from England. Pettypool come from Pooty pool "...history of settled Essex, it is thought that Pooty Pools Farm, located in the parish of Roxwell, carries one of the two oldest recorded place-names in the local area...". Since William Pettypool settled in Virginia, my branch of last name has dropped the petty.

Quoting the bible doesn't make it so. The bible is the claim, not the evidence.

@xenoview if you didn't have evidence of a claim, there is no such thing as a claim. A claim is an initial form of evidence.