Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote, inter alia,:
"My opinion would be that there are such people who
believe that the Torah is generally accurate but not necessarily so in
every historical detail. "
Some would define this somewhat differently: by comparing the biblical
narratives to external sources, and from internal evidence in the texts
themselves, the biblical history of Early Israel can be accepted in broad
outline. This is contray to the minimalists' or the fundamentalists' views.
And furthermore, it has nothing whatsoever to do with "divine" innspiration,
guidance or origin.
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> One thing is certain about Eusebius--he believed in an exodus of the Jews=
=20
> from Egypt and seems to have been at one with Artapanus regarding the det=
ails. =20
> See his "Praeparatio Evangelica". Bar Hebraeus, a man who wrote the hist=
ory of=20
> the world in Syriac, agreed with these, as well. They placed an exodus 4=
90=20
> years after the era of Abraham.
Yes, of course, but here I adressed just the contemption Eusebius would hav=
e manipulated Sanchiunaton toward a likeliness with the biblical material. =
There is however no likeliness in these excerpts excepting a couple of reas=
onably expectable details in Sanchiunaton, as reported by Philo over Eusebi=
us.
I myself beleave it to be extremely unlikely that the exodus has no signifi=
cant historical background. See just the massive anti-jewish literature esp=
ecially from late-antique Egypt Josephus does polemise against. There is no=
single historian however virulent against the Jews who would try to negate=
the reality of the exodus. Should there have existed the slightest possibi=
lity for any of these autors to state - the exodus is an invention - they w=
ould have made this. Fact is, not a single one has done this. So do modern =
historians working from the side of such a hipothetical basis have the time=
running against their arguments. The single still working argument is an "=
ex silentio" in all its variations.