The whole Exodus story is a fiction as are the terrible things visited upon Pharaoh because JHVH “hardened his heart” so that JHVH would have to do it to free the Jews. Strangely there are no records of any Jews as slaves. Now they were in Babylon, but not Egypt. Curious. Could that story for Babylon somehow got put into Egypt by mistake? Heard nothing on that. So the Babylonians just freed the Jews after their “captivity” with no vainglorious intervention from a jealous god?
…The fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE, exiled Judeans were permitted to return to Judah.45 According to the biblical book of Ezra, construction of the second temple in Jerusalem began around 537 BCE. All these events are considered significant in Jewish history and culture, and had a far-reaching impact on the development of Judaism.
Archaeological studies have revealed that not all of the population of Judah was deported, and that, although Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, other parts of Judah continued to be inhabited during the period of the exile.6 The return of the exiles was a gradual process rather than a single event, and many of the deportees or their descendants did not return. Wikipedia
The whole Exodus story is a fiction as are the terrible things visited upon Pharaoh because JHVH “hardened his heart” so that JHVH would have to do it to free the Jews. Strangely there are no records of any Jews as slaves. Now they were in Babylon, but not Egypt. Curious. Could that story for Babylon somehow got put into Egypt by mistake? Heard nothing on that. So the Babylonians just freed the Jews after their “captivity” with no vainglorious intervention from a jealous god?
…The fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE, exiled Judeans were permitted to return to Judah.45 According to the biblical book of Ezra, construction of the second temple in Jerusalem began around 537 BCE. All these events are considered significant in Jewish history and culture, and had a far-reaching impact on the development of Judaism.
Archaeological studies have revealed that not all of the population of Judah was deported, and that, although Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, other parts of Judah continued to be inhabited during the period of the exile.6 The return of the exiles was a gradual process rather than a single event, and many of the deportees or their descendants did not return. Wikipedia