The Fiction Behind the Faith: Why the ancient Israelis created a history

The stories in the Old Testament, such as Creation, the Global Flood, the enslavement of the Jews in Egypt, the Ten Plagues on Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, and the conquest of the Promised Land by Joshua, are myths. They never happened. We know that for several reasons. They claim God dictated them to Moses at Mt. Sinai, but they’re full of demonstrable errors that God wouldn’t have made. Next, the Pentateuch describes Israeli history from the 20th century BCE, but that’s at least se...