There isn't any archeological evidence for the type of destruction in the levant ascribed to Joshua in the bible at the accepted date of the exodus. There is plenty subsequent to Hyksos expulsion from Egypt however. And the pharoe who expelled them was ahmose, which means brother of mose in either Hebrew or Egyptian(I can't remember which). Obviously mose is Canaanite(Hebrew) for Moses. In addition there was an Egyptian historian who flat out stated that when the Hyksos were expelled they left with 240,000 people, wandered the desert and eventually built Jerusalem.
The story of Moses floating down the river is almost identical to a much earlier version involving Sargon the great of Akkad. Obviously several thousand years of Assyrian (Akkadians) dominance of the region had massive influence over subsequent neobabylonia. So I would say its pretty likely the priests did alter the book during the exile.
Given that it's likely they altered the book during the exile, and that archeology and historians from other cultures indicate the Israelites were actually the Hyksos, it would mean that the Israelites were not enslaved but rather were the slavers. The Hyksos were a Canaanite group (biblical Hebrew language is identical to Canaanite) who went into Egypt and took over a portion of the kingdom from the inside basically through subversion and acquisition of the regions wealth. Which sounds pretty familiar. Some scholars claim the Hyksos were Hittite(aryans), but most simply call them asiatic or Canaanite. Ofc it's possible there were factions of both among them.
None of that really has to do with the magi or zarathustrians but I can say it's pretty obvious Judaism owes a pretty substantial debt to the zarathustrians as well as the Babylonians. The idea of judgement, a messiah, a lake of fire, dualism, an adversary god like Satan, and many other tenants of Judaism can traced directly to the zoroastrians whose religion preceded the captivity by several hundred years.
The bible does make it pretty clear that the Israelites were white people. David is described as ruddy. The whore of babylon is blonde, many other passages support that idea. That doesn't necessarily make them aryans tho, as the story of Noah was traditionally understood as the story of white ppl, as in jephath was father of the aryans who were white, Shem was father of the arabs and Jews who used to be white and ham was father of the Egyptians who used to be white.
Back to the magi, who knows maybe they really did know shit they shouldn't have known and we're aware of the evil plans of the sons of Shem directed against them and their cousins. And maybe God really did come to earth to judge them and warn us.
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