please read again because I said that STORIES GETS PASSED DOWN IN GENERATIONS. ❤ Which simplified means: Person A is alive to witness the effects Thera has on Egypt. He tells his son, Person B. Person B tells his son, Person C. Person C tells his son, Person D. Person D is alive when the Hebrews gets to leave Egypt, and tells the story to his son, Person E. Person E tells his son, Person F. Person F uses the story as an act of god to let the Hebrews escape when he tells his son, Person G, and so on. Person W, many many generations later, will of course believe that this is absolutely true and how dare others question it.
THAT is what it means when a story gets passed down for generations. Just like the Great Flood for several different cultures because of a event in all of their pasts.
Ooh, I like the sound of henotheism! I’ve honestly not heard that word before and it does suit Judaism. ❤ (all this being said, Judaism is my favourite of the abrahamic religions since the, uh, “spin-offs” are dangerously monotheistic)
What caused the Egyptians to let go of the Hebrew slaves can be discussed and I actually would love if we discovered the reason (yes even if it would prove me wrong), but it most certainly was not plagues sent from a god. Because if that had been possible his believers wouldn’t have been taken as slaves in the first place, or harassed and murdered for centuries or put through hell on earth not even a hundred years ago. If a god could unleash plagues on Egypt, he would have done so more times when his believers were put through worse.
But these plagues in particular can most certainly be traced back to Thera. Hence the stories told for generations and becoming myths as if they actually had happened for a particular reason at a particular time because the Hebrews at that point in time didn’t know better, this is what they’ve been told by their parents and grandparents was the reason for their escape and why wouldn’t it be right because how else did they get free?
For me, seeing youths on tumblr reblog things where they actually truly believe things like the Red Sea crossing, not understanding where the Hebrews were located or how the words was misinterpreted, makes me think of everyone who for real claims that the Hebrew slaves built the pyramids as well, and how many people regardless of religious belief choose to believe that too.
Basically TLDR; Thera caused the plagues of Egypt as it affected countries worldwide and Exodus used it as an act of their god for his people to be free because of stories told through those like a thousand years? inbetween the events of Thera and the myth to become “fact” in a written form. Therefor how the Torah was written is not irrelevant.
