1/1/2023 0 Comments Ipuwer papyrus![]() ![]() I’ve spent a little time around The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, and have to assume that at one point or another, I would have come across the document that proves the Exodus from Egypt-but not being the librarian of JTS, I thought I’d check with him. If that were not enough to turn some heads, the next piece is what got my attention: “Tonight, Ramesses’ mummy is in the Cairo Museum, and the papyrus document reporting the escape of the slaves is in the archives of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City” (7). Wow! Disbelievers of the world watch out that seems to confirm the Exodus. “The telling begins sometime between 12 BCE, when a document known to archeologists as ‘Papyrus Anastasi V’ reports that slaves have escaped from a palace at Pi-Ramesses into the Sinai. The timeline begins with referencing the Exodus itself. At the top of each page of Foer’s work is a timeline that follows us through the evening as we turn each beautifully designed, exquisitely illuminated, and captivatingly commented page. However, with the recent printing of Jonathan Safran Foer’s New American Haggadah, we actually seem to get our proof. ![]() How could the Torah’s version of history agree with the Truth that we know from philosophy or science? To answer, we search for proof, scientific facts, or historic records that will undisputedly confirm that the Children of Israel were in fact slaves and were freed in a mass exodus, and that God inflicted plagues upon the Egyptians. In each generation-a theme these days-there are those who have attempted to reconcile Truths. Applying the rigors of science to religion is no new endeavor for Judaism. As the article continues, “If a ‘fact’ cannot be understood, fitted into a conceptual framework that we have reason to believe in, or confirmed independently some other way, it risks becoming what journalists like to call a ‘permanent exclusive’-wrong.”Īs we gather to celebrate Passover this week, the attempts of all those who seek to prove or disprove the Children of Israel’s exodus from Egypt seem to surface anew. However, the real chink in the armor of the debunking experiment was that it had no theory to back it up. ![]() Prove it wrong once, and it should topple like a house of cards. After all, Einstein’s theory of relativity is a theory. It was not only the second group’s results that put Einstein back up on his throne. Shortly after the first experiment seemed to turn much of modern science on its head, another group using the same facility proved that the neutrinos actually did move at their expected speed of light. If their findings were verifiable, then much of what we believe to be true about the world-and have been proving for some time now with experiment after experiment-would crumble, and we would be forced to create a new understanding of our natural world. (“The Trouble with Data that Outpaces a Theory,” 3/26/12) Knock it down and you potentially open the door to all kinds of things, like the ability to go back in time and kill your grandfather. As the New York Times article featuring the potentially debunking results wrote, After all, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, which proclaimed the speed of light as the cosmic speed limit, is the foundation of modern science and has been shown to work to exquisite precision zillions of times. For those of us not tuned in to the wonders of science, that sounds impressive, but for those versed in the laws of physics, the outcome of this experiment was utterly mind blowing. In September, a group of physicists conducted an experiment during which they seemed to prove that subatomic particles known as neutrinos had traveled faster than the speed of light. ![]()
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