Had a recent chat with a friend and he told me the following about Exodus:
>Exodus speaks of a massive slave revolt of hebrews that fled from egyptian territory into territory egypt didn't own in the levant
There is no record of a slave revolt, any form of enslaving of hebrews, or even really large scale slavery in egypt except by their enemies, and most of the "mass slavery" projects that are often state (ie the pyramids built under ramses and so forth) required skilled artisans and craftsman, which is sort of incompatible with chattel slavery.
>And the most damning: Egypt held quite tightly and directly the levant at this time, and had large settlements and loyal people in this region, so the "fleeing" the jews did if it was to be under ramses would have brought them from egypt to… egyptian held land.
>It's much more likely they were a tribe that moved from babylon to a raider group that took the palestinian region from the egyptians during a latter period of chaos and then outcompeted several other tribes which also took the region.
>However, while this is the "most likely", it is not evidenced enough that people make a big deal of it due to how much it'd piss off the jews to say.
Thoughts on this? Is Exodus actually inaccurate?