In the passage in the Qur'an, pharaoh asks Haman to build a tower reaching to heaven so he can see Moses' god. You don't see the obvious resemblance of this motif to the Tower of Babel story in Genesis?
Okay, I'll go through this again, even though it's plainly a waste of time:
1) Events so momentous as those related in the Books of Exodus and Joshua should have had a massive enough effect to have been recorded in history, particularly since we have Egyptian papyri going back to 1500 BCE. Also, there should be archaeological evidence, such as the existence of the cities supposedly destroyed by Joshua's campaign in Canaan. We should also find evidence of their violent destruction.
2) Yet there is no recorded history from that time of either the plagues against Egypt, described in Exodus, or the wholesale destruction of the cities of Canaan, described in Joshua. Archaeologically, there's evidence that many of the great walled cities supposedly destroyed by Joshua either didn't exist, were small, unwalled towns or did exist but weren't destroyed.
What you tout as "recorded history" is the biblical text, written centuries after the alleged incidents. I'm not the one at odds with recorded history; you are.
As to the Merneptah Victory Stele, it mentions Israel as one people among several already living in Canaan. This is totally at odds with what is claimed in the Book of Joshua.
As to the theory that an exodus event might have been a much more minor event than what is found in Exodus and Joshua, that's about the only way to find anything remotely historical upon which the Exodus might have been based.
Concerning the hilited area: Really? According to the
Wikipedia site on Hemen, he was being worshipped during the 19th. dynasty and well before that time (from the site, bolding added to get your attention):
Hemen is mentioned in a limited number of inscriptions and texts. Some of these include:
Ankhtifi, a monarch dated to the
first intermediate period, is shown inspecting a fleet, killing a hippopotamus in Hefat during festivities and offering the hippopotamus to Hemen.[7]
A round topped stela from the
13th dynasty invokes Ptah-Sokari-Osiris and Horus-Hemen lord of Asphynis. The stela was formerly in the V. Golenishchev collection, but is now in Moscow, in the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.[8]
The chief sculptor Userhat who lived at the end of the 18th dyansty / beginning 19th dynasty mentions "causing cult statues to rest in their shrine".
Hemen of Hefat is one of the gods listed among those Userhat was responsible for.[9]
Statue from the time of Amenhotep III; Now in Avignon, Musée Calvet.[10][11
ETA: if yoiu aren't convinced by the Wikipedia site, try
this one. Here's what the site has to say about Hemen (bolding added):
HEMEN -
The falcon god of Mo'Allah,
HEMEN was a very ancient divinity mentioned in the
first texts of the pyramids. He was a mythological war god who fought against the forces of primordial chaos.
BTW, the
Pyramid Texts date from the Old Kingdom (from the site):
The oldest of the texts have been dated to
between ca. 2400-2300 BC.
, is a biliteral and appears to be some kind of h. Says "ḥw" here:
