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Myths of the Founders 119
But, no sooner does he arrive in Canaan than he finds a great famine requiring that he
move to Egypt.
If God had this great plan to give Canaan to Abraham and wanted his heir to
move there to establish his name, why did he wait seventy-five years to tell him to
move, and why did he wait until there was a famine requiring him to leave the land
right away? Something is wrong with this picture.
As we saw in Myth #48, the early genealogy and history of Abraham was a late
anachronistic invention. If we strike that portion of the narrative from Abraham’s
biography, we find the story of Abraham beginning in Egypt, where he has some sort
of confrontation with the pharaoh. This indicates that the original biblical history of
Israel began in Egypt, not Canaan or Mesopotamia.
Biblical redactors, living amidst a culturally sophisticated Babylonian cultural and
long out of touch with their Egyptian roots, sought to show that the Hebrew people
stemmed from the same intellectual roots and influences as that of the highly regarded
Babylonians. Consequently, they took advantage of ambiguities in their early historical
traditions and added in a journey from Mesopotamia to Canaan in order to show
that they had roots in the Babylonian world long before they resided in Egypt.