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The Bible isn't a reliable history of Israel's beginnings

The Amarna Letters confirmed what scholars already suspected: the biblical account isn't a reliable source for Israel's earliest centuries.

Read the Bible's origins as story, not record.

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Earlier scholars claimed Israel was in Egypt during this period to explain its absence. Most now reject that as a facile harmonization.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 35

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