Grenades were never 3-4lbs, what you are talking about is mortar/cannon shells. Most grenades were ceramic and weighted much less that. They were about the size of a modern cricket ball according to most books I've seen about early modern grenades in the UK. The small blast radius and poor fuses compared to modern grenades made them only used in sieges and storming of fortified works. They were terror weapons like fire lances and other fireworks.
There are accounts of musketeers in the English Civil War carrying a half dozen in their knapsack when storming fortified town. The is one account I remember of grenades being used to force the surrender of church where troops were holding out.

Adjectives aside, its explanatory power makes "pretending" a lot more like "assuming". I believe u/TamerSpoon3 already mentioned the abundance of Egyptian loanwords in the Torah but I know of no reason why events of an important story having roots in some foggy part of history should be a taboo idea.

The modern era got so enlightened that "bible bad" hardly flies anymore.

Really? Nothing about the prolific Proto-Sinaitic carvings in the turquoise mines at Serâbit El-Khâdim? I mean, it's not hard to find, unless you're just not looking for it.

Yes. The famous Bedlam House in London was opened to the public at some in the late 16th or early 17th century as a method of funding it. Public tours of Bedlam only ended in 1770.

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Be my guest, not sure why it should affect me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I also think that hand grenades are most useful by individual soldiers, especially when attacking a bunker or enclosed area.
I think that is a fairly modern concept in terms of war, before this century everyone just used to march around in red outfits and lineup to shoot each other

I've always thought this statement is ridiculous. I could claim anything with it. Russell's teapot.

That is correct, you can invent any silly story you want and pretend it is true just like people do with the Exodus myth.

This is a cool bit of insight. I didn’t give that any thought but when I read it, it’s auto-sorted as future tense.

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Something something absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Less reliable, heavier and harder to use and less immediately effective than more recent designs. Grenadiers were a dedicated unit in some cases just to section off the dudes that were big enough to throw it out of range of their own people, much less carry them around.

They did have some use cases, particularly times when you could drop them into a hatch or strong door instead of having to hurl them yourself, they just weren't widespread like the 20th century.

Given that the dominant infantry formation of the day was a tightly packed group of pikeman ( called a tercio in Spanish, I believe, that was almost viewed as unstoppable.) Throwing it rolling grenades, even from a short distance could disrupt a charge and bridge the gap created by the long pikes of the day. Especially in an era of single shot slow reloading muskets and artillery. Grenadiers were typically recruited for size and strength and were viewed as shock assault troops much in the same way Eastern Euro armies have “Guards” divisions.

But this is really more a 17/18th century usage. 14th C the English longbow and German short pike were the battlefield weapons of choice.

There were a few varieties. The Ketchum grenade was thrown or lobbed and had a fuse on the tip. There were also Rains grenades, basically the Confederates took the idea of the contact fuse on a Ketchum grenade and buried it nose end up in what amounts to the first landmines. The Union hated these and there's stories of them marching POWs at the head of their columns.

https://armyhistory.org/mine-warfare-in-the-civil-war/

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I'm not talking about religion. & He isn't either from what I read in the article. But maybe that's just me

These scrolls & monuments & pieces of clay have humongous historical value. It's true as well that they have religious value to many but the religious part is beside the point from what I can tell

Just like we'd love to find a first edition of the first time someone wrote down the poems of Homer - in 2018 they found a clay tablet which reportedly "may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece" which is the same kind of cool https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44779492

I’m talking about the mentions of Shasu of Yhw, which some scholars belief is a direct mention of the people who worshipped.

From that we can assume there was enough interaction between Egyptians and these people. What kind of interaction isn’t mentioned.

A quick trip through your profile tells me that you probably learned English as a second language. That in mind, it would sound more natural to use "I wish" instead of "I hope" in this context. "I hope" is pretty strictly used for events happening in the future, but because he's already posted the text without any sources, you'd say "I wish," as that can be used for past or future events depending on the context.

Sorry if this comes off as rude, I really don't mean for it to be. It's a very minor error and any native speaker would understand what you meant, but just something to keep in mind for the future

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Egyptian Religious beliefs historically probably didn’t play in, because the history itself probably didn’t happen. The exodus from Egypt was said to be caused by god’s plagues on the Egyptians. Thay is a Hebrew myth, not an Egyptian one… Egyptian religions probably didn’t care much about other monotheistic religions of foreigners.

Semitic when referring to languages includes Arabic, so not sure what your point is

I was very curious about this but everything I've found says that graffiti is proto- Arabic, not Hebrew

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I originally was going to post very unreliable, but I figured someone would object...LOL oh well