Interesting

Any good sources on this you came across? I’m curious

Being a bit of a Biblical scholar myself and a believer in its message, I'm both extremely interested and grateful for this work.

The entire premise of God is built around a truth claim, and posits that truth is both what leads us into being like God, but also understanding God. And regardless, I made a vow to follow the truth wherever it may lay.

My worldview has been shattered enough times now to seek out what's needed to form a better one. My hope is the others, both professional and layman people, follow this work and leverage it to improving where we stand.

The world would be a far better place if the church, religion, and all involved were not plagued by fakes, forgeries, lies, and more.

I think 'somewhat unreliable' is probably a huge understatement. Fuses where completely unpredictable compared to for instance modern cheap fireworks, and both too fast and too slow are very bad.

How does that work given the Egyptian's ties to their own religious beliefs? I'm not saying you're wrong, but it seems like an odd dismissal when all accounts seem to suggest the Egyptians were quite religious, and the Hebrew's God is competing.

Your phrasing seems to apply modern perspective upon ancient beliefs.

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Note that Byzantine grenades were more like Molotov cocktails than what we think of as grenades.

Main reason why grenades were used in a very limited fashion until the early modern era (16th century) is the lack of a reliable fuze. It wasn't until the gunpowder fuze that you could reliably light an enclosed and thrown explosive charge, early gunpowder weapons (outside China and India) used loose gunpowder to guide the flame to the main charge and that loose gunpowder would have been scattered when you threw the weapon.

We see the first traces of match cords In the mid 15th century

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You spelled grenades incorrectly and the person responding wasn't certain that you meant grenade.

How were people with Albinism treated in the Victorian Era?

The Portuguese used hand grenades in the XVI century, one soldier wrote on his memoirs some very harsh words on some of his comrades that had so many on their bodies they could barely run.

But they were too unstable and too unreliable to be used as successfully as they are today.

We do, yes. The Mernetaph Stele mentions Israelites in Canaan. But there is no mention of an exodus of slaves or of Israelites having once been in Egypt. There were probably semitic speaking slaves in Egypt, but there is no definitive connection between these populations and the people who would become the Israelites.

If I recall correctly, much of the extra training consisted of learning to say “tow, row, row, row, row, row” for your fellow Grenadiers.

We do have evidence of Egyptians knowing about the people that would later be known as Jews, however, as well as their God.

King Samuel's Gospel of Mary Magdalene is a modern translation available in both English and Spanish. It's a good translation with lots of insightful footnotes, as well as some artwork to raise awareness.

www.GospelMaryMagdalene.com

But how many losses were recorded when Egyptians lost to foreign peoples?

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Ah shoot for week be good.

This was an excellent read. What a cool guy

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I'm not saying it's a purely Christian field of study. I simply mean that a lot of biblical studies I see have an agenda and are out to prove something specific, not to just validate data with an open mind like this.

There is no evidence for the events described in Egypt in Exodus at all, none. Avaris was the Hyksos capitol, and as the Hyksos were from the Levant it is likely that they were semitic people, but there is no evidence that the Hebrew ethnicity had split off from the other Canaanites at the time of the Hyksos. Egyptian loan words makes a lot of sense, because Egyptians controlled and dominated the Levant for the vast majority of the Bronze Age, and never once noticed the Hebrew people or religion until after the Bronze Age Collapses. The people who would eventually become Hebrews likely picked up the language and customs from the empire that ruled over them and that they paid tribute to. The oldest seals for Hebrew kings use Egyptian symbolism, indicating they were still beholden to the Egyptians even into the Iron Age around 700 BCE. Arab and Aramaic peoples arrived in the Iron Age and were more influenced by Assyrian culture.

The Mernephtah Stele does not mention the defeat of Isreal, it mentions the defeat of nomadic foreign people called Isiriar, among others. This might or might not he Israel, but if so this is rhe first ever mention in all of written history of Israel or the Hebrew people. This would be the first time that anyone in Egypt, despite extensive record keeping and despite controlling all the land of Israel for thousands of years, ever mentions anyone who MIGHT be Hebrew. There is nothing at all that indicates Rameses lost his chariots or that they have anything to do with his campaigns or why he went on them.

It's not conclusive and it isn't even compelling, it's wishful thinking by people who are desperate for confirmation bias.