Non Religious Sources For Religious Figures
 

Not sure if this belongs in this room or not. But are there any non biblical sources that prove the existence of biblical figures like Abraham ect... or is the bible the only source of existence of these people.

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The bible is not 'a source', it is the collection of sources bound into a single volume for ease of handling.

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Sounds like somebody didn't understand the question. ;)

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The Ebla tablets are very interesting as to "extra-biblical" references to the Bible:

One contribution is in relation to Genesis 14. Critics have have described the victory of Abraham over Chedorlaomer and the Mesopotamian kings as fictitious and the five Cities of the Plain (Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar) as legendary.

Genesis 14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim

The Ebla archives, however, refer to all five Cities of the Plain and on one tablet the cities are listed in the exact same sequence as Genesis 14. The tablets further reflect that the region was prosperous and successful with a patriarchal culture consistent with that recorded in Genesis prior to the catastrophe recorded in Genesis 14.
http://www.formerthings.com/ebla_tablets.htm


There are others but this is particularly interesting.

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I have read that there is no record in Egyptian artifacts of the Israelite enslavement, nor of Moses. I've also read that there is! :dunno

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Oh I understood the question all right. Sounds like somebody didn't like the answer, though.

:dogpat