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I enjoy studying the Old Testament as I find the Ancient Near East to be fascinating! Exodus, in particular, is quite interesting!
Here's a quote from the New American Commentary on Exodus including a footnote (link in the comments for the article referred to in the footnote if anyone wants to do some further reading).

"In the case of most matters described in Exodus, scant corroborating evidence exists [7] by which a historian, regardless of his or her bias, could confirm or deny the historicity of the biblical accounts."

"[7] Quite possibly by design on the part of the ancient Egyptians. G. Wheeler has argued persuasively that the ancient Egyptian mind-set would have found it almost impossible to record for posterity anything about the exodus, the plagues that led up to them, or other events that showed the weakness of Egypt, its leaders, or its people. This is because Egyptians believed that writing was an act of the creation of reality—that written words actually brought into being the things they described. From the Egyptian point of view, writing had the power to control the forces of the cosmos, to make them become what the words described. Therefore, they thought, to put into writing the story of the domination of Yahweh over the gods of Egypt and the killing of the firstborn, as well as other details of the plagues and the 'ruin' of the country (Exod 10:7), would be to fix them in reality and give them a currency and a continuation that would be harmful for the future of Egypt."
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