Did Hebrews were slaves in Egypt or were they "only" foreign workers? This is one of the greatest questions in the history

Did Hebrews were slaves in Egypt or were they "only" foreign workers? This is one of the greatest questions in the history

When we are thinking the Old Testament and the Hebrews, who escaped from Egypt, we must ask one thing. Is slave happier, if that person doesn't know to be a slave? Maybe Hebrews were lived in their isolated and walled areas, without normal contact with Egyptians. And then in one day, the truth was uncovered. They were below everybody.

That caused an idea that something must be done. But the thing is that those cases have only one source, the Holy Bible, and the Old Testament, what was written by Hebrews. And in the air hangs one question, were those people realize that there was something wrong in their position?

One of the greatest mysteries of history is were Hebrews slaves in Egypt? This is the thing, what is starting to generate questions in the mid of researchers. When we think the position of slaves, was that some kind of stereotype, where Egyptians whipped those people, and then the induction question is, that how strongly those Hebrews were guarded if they were imprisoned in Egypt.

And were whipping and other kinds of punishments allowed for those particular people? There is another explanation, why Hebrews were lived in Egypt, and they were ethnically separated from the majority of people. This explanation is simple, those people were foreign workers, who worked in some special building sites, what was highly secured because they contained secrets, what the pharaoh didn't want to uncover.

So if that thing is the explanation of why Hebrews lived in Egypt, that would mean that they were hired, because those people didn't know how to communicate with ordinary Egyptians. And that's why pharaoh and his highest officials hired those people for the building sites, where the trust and secrecy were extremely important.

And the thing how pharaoh communicates with Hebrews might be really interesting. Maybe some Hebrew children were taken to grow with Egyptians, and there is a possibility, that those children spent days in the kindergarten in the language immersion and the evenings those children could spend with their parents.

The Egyptians might need those people for translating orders to normal workers, and there is a possibility that this is the thing, why some Hebrews realized, that there is something wrong in their social and economic position in the community of Egypt. Maybe those people lived in slums and the areas where they lived were enclosed, and then some children went to see normal Egyptian lifestyle, the reality was hitting their face.

But is this the explanation of escaping? Why did those people leave in one night from that place? What made them special? In that time Egypt was the richest kingdom on Earth, and that thing brought many tradesmen and another kind of people to that country. But what caused the escape? And what was the real role of Hebrews in that society?

Did those people lived in fixed houses, or did they just visited in that land for earning money, and then left to desert or somewhere like the upper Nile? One of the most interesting questions is, that did some of those people, who traveled to the upper Nile see the Mines of King Solomon? Those things are interesting things to think when we are spending time in the Evening at home.