Refutation of religions, part seven. The Promised Land!

As we saw in my previous entry the Exodus was an Israelite borrowing regarding the Egyptian expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt. There are certainly other stories mixed in with the tale but there is, as mentioned absolutely no credibility to the Israelite account.

This also gives the Judges some credibility for after the Egyptian army expelled the Hyksos they proceeded to take the land from the Nile to the Euphrates. This land they held until the thirteenth century and all kings of the area became vassal kings under the Egyptian Monarchy. There is nothing Israelite about this period, it was all a Canaanite tale of what happened.

Now we need to mention the race of people who worshipped the God represented by the Tetragammaton, Jehovah, YHWH, or whatever you want to call him.

Such people actually existed in the ancient Near East, they were called Shasu!
When the chief God of the Canaanites, El, divided the worlds population among his seventy sons these Shasu were the unlucky bunch who were stuck with this son of El.

This God was then known as Yawwu by many and we read about this God in documents from one Canaanite archeological site known as Ugarit/Ras Shamras. The document known as Baal II depicts how the God El called his son Yammu in and told him: “Your name shall no longer be Yammu; Yawwu shall be your name.

Yammu was very well known; he was a God of the Underworld who recruited “Souls