and yet there are plenty of ancient references to jews see     > khazars khazars were turks. modern genetic show that ashkenazi are italian/slavic mixed with levantine.  as for sephardim and mizrahim, jews are clusters with ancient israelites, as shown in your own image   > a) it never says they were slaves.  exodus says jews(hebrews, israelites, etc) were slaves in egypt.  > judeans would become a thing only later, it depends on what you mean. in the biblical fairy tale story jews descend from judah, so were already a thing as he was joseph's older brother. in reality? well of course they didn't exist yet, judaism as we know it appeared in the 3rd century bc.  > tldr - the ancestors of judeans were the hyksos,  and the hyksos story has little in common with the exodus story, the exodus is basically a fairy tale/propagandistic version of actual events. only a fool would believe exodus happened as it is told in the bible.
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