Tel Shiloh 2024: End-of-Season Interview With Dr. Scott Stripling 

If you do a little research on Dr. Striplings interviews regarding the defixio you will find the answers to your question. He also publishes papers regularly on Academia. The fishing weight idea is ridiculous.

@@vdoniel On Academia? in other words he self-publishes them? I don't know what the lead object was, I was fascinated about that but I no longer think it has text on it.

I think that exodus was when hyksos left egypt

@@feemevidencias Incidentally, my dating for the Exodus also conforms to the radiocarbon dating of the destruction layers of Jericho, Ai, and other Canaanite cities c. 1550 BC.

Yeah, it irks me when archaeologists refer to the worship of the one true God as "cultic".

I have learned that we Christians have a negative view of the word cult that historians and scientists do not have. The word cult is the root word for culture and it describes the beliefs and practices of the cult which come from the deities of the people. In that way, the use of the word cult by these scientists is perfectly understandable and acceptable. The word cult to us Christians describes people who have a false religion based on the god being worshipped or the leader of the cult. That, too, is a perfectly acceptable use of the word because it is an accurate description. We often talk about our Christian culture (centered around the teachings of God the Father and his son Jesus) in the USA and how it is at risk in today’s culture. The reason is the change in what people are worshipping and the rules around which their worship is ordered. (Usually we consider these to be godless, but the fervor of their beliefs would seem to suggest otherwise.)

Yahwist worshippers are cultists. Anat yahu. Its all Baal worship until Plato proposed a creator god that was behind all of creation without being part of creation itself.