...Come off it, George. Of course David Rohl is speculating a bit - the whole book is a speculative reconstruction. But we know (from the text) that Bezalel had been a slave as all the Israelites had been, and that he was a skilled craftsman working in gold, silver etc. He would hardly have had his own gold and silver to work with, so he must have been working for rich Egyptians. "Royal" may be a bit speculative, but Rohl argues elsewhere that the Israelites were living at the then royal capital of Avaris (and gives good archaeological evidence for this), and the royal family would have been the major users of gold and silver jewellery at the time and place.
I should think that it would require a rather fertile mind to know so
precisely what Bezaleel might have been doing prior to and thus outside
the account. I propose that he worked as an engineer for NASA :-)
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