Thus Moses had escaped punishment, but he grew up with a speech impediment thereafter. He aspired to defeat the Hittites and control all of Syria, but in the fifth year of his reign Ramses walked into a Hittite trap laid for him at Kadesh, on the Orontes River in Syria. There is ample evidence for an Exodus in the 15th century BC. These debates need to have a few more guidelines beside simply true or false. Josephus cites a rule of the high priesthood for the last 16 years of the 40 years in the wilderness, when Moses was 104 120 years old. When they were almost at the east coast of the Red Sea, the Egyptian army, under the command of the Pharaoh himself, appeared at their heels. Ill be ordering his other books soon. And they were built for centuries by specialist builders, tradesmen, a sort of civil service. Does the Merneptah Stele Contain the First Mention of Israel? Theyd changed. The Clementine Stromata Book 1, Chapter 21 with Josephus Antiquities of the Jews (AoJ) and the Bible, presents us a clear outline. His arguments are reasonable arguments to the extent that they try to connect the dots for an event that would have occurred long ago. In relation to Keiths amazing comment, I can only say that if you actually did go to school, learn to read, and understand history, archaeology and theology, you would discover how that most respected, educated and well resourced and evidenced backed scholars, archaeologists, Educated people on Egyptology, historians and more have clearly and without doubt proven that 1) There were no Jews as such in ancient Egypt, and that the Jewish people originated from the Canaan and they were NOT slaves in historical Egypt. In 1422 B.C., Amenophis ruled Egypt, until 1391 B.C. In I Kings 6:1, the literal reading show us that it was 480 years from the lasaah of the children of Israel from the Land of Egypt. That is, it was the finishing moment, the end destination, the conclusion to leaving Egypt, being the end of 40 years in the wilderness, and the feet of all Israelites touching both sides of the Jordan. is the 4th year of Solomons reign making both King Solomon, and his father David, as of an older date than modern Intellectuals will lead you to believe. Everything points to Amenhotep III as the pharaoh Exodus and Akhenaten becoming a monotheist after experiencing the 10 plagues. Clement: 1182 1142 B.C. In Exodus 7, Pharaoh is responding to signs that God is performing through Moses. The deity YHWH is portrayed over and again as being a tyrant who commits genocide. We already know factually that significant populations of semites were residing in Egypt at more or less the right time. To learn more about evidence for Israels Exodus from Egypt, read the full article Exodus Evidence: An Egyptologist Looks at Biblical History in the May/June 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. Looking for evidence of these events in the 1200s B.C. On Scientific Semantics of A.Tarski (Warsaw Lwow School of Logic) from 1935 will help in theology also! The notion that the Land had rest, may imply the East Bank lands of 2 1/2 tribes enjoyed the Shabbat, as did any lands the Hebrews immediately conquered. The primitive manner in which the culture existed for millennia (polygamy,marketing of slaves and keeping multiple sex slaves etc) and their lack of understanding of even basic natural law clearly reveal the source for the mythology. . There was a cooler time 1159-1140 BC. The biblical story of the Israelites' Descent and Exodus speaks about important events that took place in Egypt, so we should expect to find records of these events in Egyptian sources - the seven years of famine predicted by Joseph, the arrival of his father Jacob with his Hebrew family from Canaan, the great plagues of Moses, the death of Egypt's first born, including the Pharaoh's . The midrash calls the daughter of Pharaoh "Bithiah," identifying her with the woman mentioned in I Chron 4:18: "And his Judahite wife bore Jered father of Gedor, Heber father of Soco, and Jekuthiel father of Zanoah. There are Bibles with maps of the Exodus and none of them show a transition of the Red Sea. O my mothers son, answered the courteous Prophet Aaron, absolving himself from what Moses had thought, do not pull me by head and beard! How could Moses write anything when Hebrews had no functional written language in 1300BC? Why wetlands are so critical for life on Earth, Rest in compost? This is a The article explains: The storyline of the Exodus, of a people fleeing from a humiliating slavery, suggests elements that are historically credible. Another compelling piece of evidence for the Exodus is found in the biblical text itself. In the 1930s, archaeologists at the University of Chicago were excavating the mortuary Temple of Aya and Horemheb, the last two pharaohs of Egypts 18th Dynasty, in western Thebes. Is this a miracle? Look at the evidence of 4-room houses which were peculiar to a Semitic group in Egypt and 40 years pop up in the hill country of Israel. I don;t think the former city would be named before a Ramses became pharaoh.. Pi Atum seemingly was named for Aten, the heretical god. Jews were free to come and go as they pleased and any exodus represented a net loss of the Jewish population as they left in small groups to assimilate with the Canaanites. In trying to determine the date of the Exodus scholars combed through ancient documents to see any mention of peoples or places that aligned with the Biblical account. The welfare of the livestock of the tribes was paramount. 5. To not be immersed and familiar with the characterizations and recent slang might cause one to stammer and stutter in conversing with those who use certain unfamiliar idioms regularly. Haggai tells us when Zerubbabel will become the Signet Ring. This BAR article is a free abstract from Manfred Bietaks article On the Historicity of the Exodus: What Egyptology Today Can Contribute to Assessing the Biblical Account of the Sojourn in Egypt in Thomas E. Levy, Thomas Schneider and William H.C. Propp, eds., Israels Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture and Geoscience (Cham: Springer, 2015). Josephus knows the Scriptures use 480 years, as according to Hebrew reckoning, in I Kings 6:1. Moses went with her, met the old man, and told him his story. Majority of Jews from this 1st Exodus from the Soviet Union settled in Israel. Likewise Ex. Exodus: Fact or fiction? According to Herodotus, by his era, the Greek calendar became reckoned as 12 months of 30 days, with every other year being given an extra inter-calculated month of 30 days Year 1 being 360 days, and Year 2 being 390 days, and then repeating itself thereafter (Herodotus, Histories, 1.33). For example: if the time of the Exodus is pushed back from the 1200 BC to three hundred years before and the narrative is fully verbatim, then should the ruler of Egypt be If one does not see in it a hidden hand he/she is blind knowing the global horror threat of nuclear war in Cold War. This was the Passover. Judges 12:11 Historians theorize the identity behind one of the Bibles most vengeful villains. The Messianic Age was envisioned by Jeremiah as beginning with the fall of Babylon, after 70 years of Exile. It seems solid. We live in an information age of high technology. I welcome private correspondence on these issues. The name of Moses is the most frequently occurring one in Quran twenty-five times more than the name of Mohammed himself . Others will not find it so convincing. On another day, Moses met the same Israeli, who was quarreling with another Egyptian, and asked the support of Moses. Her son, Horus, also is centuries later remembered by the Greeks, and thought of as a deity: Apollo. The name Egypt only appears during the 26th Dynasty (6th Century BC). and the death of Pamaitic iii, the Egyptian monarchy became Persian. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt," Exodus 7:20-21. If the Hebrews reached Egypt immediately the Hyksos gained power in Egypt, I.e. And the Isrealites couldnt just reassimilate seamlessly with their old Canannite cousins. Scripture 1180-1140 B.C. The Judges, like Jephthaa, are more so contemporaneous with the Tell El-Amarna tablets, than is the Exodus to its contents. Where did they go? (17) God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines.--In Exodus 13:17-19 the writer interposes some parenthetic remarks, which are not a continuation of the narrative interrupted (Exodus 12:42), but rather reflections that occur to him.The starting point of the journey being Tanis or Rameses, in the Eastern Delta, not far from the sea, he sees that . So many of the monuments, the products of the Egyptian state were cut of stone. The Exodus recalls the Hyksos expulsion of circa 1540 BC. The affectionate mother, without hesitation, began to act on the Heavenly instructions: she nursed her baby, put him in a wooden sarcophagus, and, before the baby was even given a name, she threw him into the river. WE DO have MANY communications found sent back & forth between Canaanite chiefs & Kings of Egypt. And am appalled that these so-called seekers after the truth, engage in silencing any dissent to their views by shutting off all comments to their videos. Why? 1) Patriarchal age would become to the 14th century, the Tell-el-Amarna age (the hypothesis by Cyrus Gordon). As noted, it is not IF the Exodus happened but WHEN! Rick Dack By being able to balance proper Biblical Chronology early on, we can more properly reckon the older dates of both Greek and Hebrew Histories as presented in Patristics. Sift through the storied history of ancient Israel. They noted the appearance of the following names: (1) Philistines, (2) Rameses, (3) Pithom, (4) Edom, (5) Seir, (6) Arad, (7) Heshbon, (8) Bozrah, (9) Ai, (10) Hazor. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. i should have asked you to tell me the whole truth. As ancient Egyptian rulers, pharaohs were both the heads of state and the religious leaders of their people. Heres why each season begins twice. I dont doubt that the Israelites could have been slaves n Egypt. Haggai has God saying that he has chosen Zerubbabel to be his signet ring, an earlier Davidic King had been called Gods Signet Ring, Jeconiah. Many say yes, while others say no. Set up by Pharaoh Merneptah to commemorate his military victories, the stele proclaims, Ashkelon is carried off, and Gezer is captured. Something similar happened in Nigeria a few years ago when a military head of state was acting as if he owned the country, killing people and doing as he pleased. Joshua 24:29 ; Judges 2:8 And Joshua the son of Nundied, being a 110 years old., Clement: As the book of Joshua relates, the above mentioned man was the successor of Moses 27 [ actual 25] years, Clement: After the close of Mosess life, Joshua succeeded to the leadership of the people, and he, after warring for 65 years, rested in the good land other 25. [Corrected by Josephus], Josephus, Antiquities, 5.1.29: So Joshua, when he had thus discoursed to them, died, having lived a 110 years; 40 of which he lived with Moses, He also became their commander after his death for 25 years., Judges 3:11 And the land had rest 40 years. Moses was given, in that appointment, the Tablets, in which We have written of everything a sermon, and the detail of everything, and was ordered, too, to keep a firm hold to the instructions therein, and to order his folk to look upon the best of these. Before he started back to his folk, Allah told Moses that when he came to His appointment early, one man among his nation misguided them by introducing a golden calf as a god to be worshiped instead of Allah. In 539 BC Babylon fell to Cyrus of Persia who ordered the release of all Jews allowing them to return to the Promised Land and rebuild Jerusalem and its House of God. Thus, simply because the Israelites earlier left a region called Rameses does not mean that it had been named after a pharaoh of the 19th dynasty-it certainly does not align with the Bible or secular history. Archaeological discoveries have verified that parts of the biblical Exodus are historically accurate, but archaeology cant tell us everything. The continuancey left in place while being written by as many as 35 different authors with mostly no contemporary knowledge of each other, and having little to no access to the others writings and all by divine inspiration over thousands of years is more than enough reason for us to approach the text with absolute belief. Date the Exodus where you wish, but 1836 BCE must now be included in the discussion. As a group? What do yall think of the Patterns of Evidence documentary on Netflix? The confrontation was broken up peacefully, but the incident placed Moses in grave danger more than before. Absolute Chronology of the Ancient World from 1533 BCE to 140 CE ( https://www.academia.edu/26080694/ ) This is my theory. Since Egyptians were paid to work on building sites during Nile river flood, it is unlikely unpaid slaves would have been employed or even needed. The Egyptian king is the principal villain of the Exodus story. They argue that almost 600 years elapsed, which aligns the Exodus with the Hyksos Expulsion of the mid 16th century BC. Sorry, Cecil. After all, they were free labor and they were . One tablet speaks of Gezer having fallen, along with Ashkelon and Lachish. I suggest readers check out the documentary Patterns of Evidence: Exodus for a better understanding of that, and to see the compelling evidence for the historicity of the Exodus account. {A Kadesh in May, 1300 BC would have encountered a simultaneous Midianite bid for control of the plains and farmlands of the Hebrews. So you have historical context and support for this? Though one cannot be completely sure of the date, most biblical scholars hold to the 1446 view. It was a mortal blow, and at once Moses repented of his wrong deed and asked Allahs Pardon. The Hyksos were able to enter Egypt easily shortly after the Exodus because of the devastation that the 10 plagues caused and the Ipuwer Manuscript describes this time. The Judahite tribes were the half-brothers of Joseph who had thrown him down a well after stripping him of his coat of many colors. You can count whichever way you want, still wont provide evidence of 2 million Jews wandering the desert without a traceit just wont. Pharaoh of the ExodusAmenhotep II Pharaoh vs Yahweh. The Exodus is a dead issue and has been a dead issue for over 30 years. When the story of the exodus is told in Exodus 12:40, however, a different timeline is described: "And the Israelites dwelt in Egypt four . Biblical Archaeology has yet to come to its literary history senses, and is filled with such political correctness nonsense of rear end kissing atheism, that it has no clue as to what the historical facts are or how to again and again come to a same right conclusion. No one has ever pinpointed when the Hebrews came into Egypt, or who Joseph might have been, but if they were there then and practicing their own religion, they would have experienced prejudice and suppression which could have driven them to leave. He will be very stubborn and it will take many signs and miracles before he will let you go; but everyone will know that I am God when he finally frees the Israelites." either because he or God stiffened his heart. 3:11 New International Version. "I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Kadesh: 31 years earlier. That occurred shortly after H. Potock has written his unsubstantiated Jews of Silence, about the loss and assimilation of the Russian Jews. But early dating and not Sothic dating must be used for dating Akhenaten. So an entire religion is based on a dude saving a large village from Egypt??? Explore a billion-year-old volcanic mystery on Lake Superior, A journey of the senses through Abu Dhabi, These Lake Superior islands are no place for amateurs. One of Earth's loneliest volcanoes holds an extraordinary secret. Didnt make an imprint? We can KNOW for certain NOAH and SONS (including SHEM and progeny ) never existed. These three place names appear together in Egyptian texts only from the Ramesside Period. During that time, the Egyptians returned to their policy of killing the newborn Israeli males and enslaving the females. There was never a population of 100k in that area at that time, so your theories are entirely debunked. They discovered that Egyptian records noted a tribal group called the PLST, part of the Sea Peoples invasion of Canaan and Egypt in the reign of Rameses 3rd circa 1174 BC. For a Ramesside to name a city for Atum would be like a .a catholic ruler naming a city for Luther. You cannot, but there is nothing else like it precisely because this book that weve come to call the Bible is itself a miracle. From 539 B.C. Of course thinking something sounds plausible is really different than knowing it factually. Why not just admit the obvious instead of trying to prove this complete fairy tale of Moses being true? . Ok then find a single piece of evidence that shows a 2 million strong population making its way around the Sinaiits been thousands of years, still waiting. is like looking for evidence for America's Revolutionary War happening at the end of the 20th century. He claimed to be a god. I also believe that the historical writings and books of the Bible, (e.g., the books of Kings and Chronicles), are historical, essential, and highly accurate but, not necessarily divinely inspired, (in the sense of infallibility.) That is exactly what appears to have happened. ; but he must admit that there are indeed some remains from the nations Midian, Edom, Ammon, Moab and Philistia in the Eleventh. In this sense, the narrative was written and shaped to express interests and hopes of post-exilic Israel, and projected into an ancient past, to a time beyond the possibility of realistic recollection. People of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines. Scholars and people of many faiths line up on either side of the equation, and some say both. Also an expert on late night TV, examining their living circumstances, said the Israelites were not slaves, but merely lowly-paid contract workers, Cecil Blount DeMille, not withstanding. It still boggles my mind that BAR continues to ignore David Rohls New Chronology and Immanuel Velikovskys Revised Chronology, both of which present near iron-clad evidence that the problem is not the biblical dates for the Exodus, but academias faulty reckoning of Egyptian chronology. The Torah's first account of Israel's war with Amalek is in Exodus 17:8-16. Moses and the Exodus - "Let My People Go". Nephilims are translated as giants, but literally, it means the fallen ones, and is a direct reference to those who died in the Red Sea while pursuing Israel. The Lord miraculously allowed the children of Israel to pass through the Red Sea on dry ground to escape, while the . Allah subsequently ordered that the Children of Israel should start out for the Sacred Land of Jerusalem to obtain it from the heathen people inhabiting it. All of the lineage , rituals and traditions are based on this date. Go, worship the LORD as you have requested". In Exodus 7:1-5 Exodus 7:1-5 [1] And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. Years ago I learned that Cecil married a remote cousin of mine in Judge Adams daughter in Boston in 1900. The pharaoh simply shrugs off what happened. In the above, we find that the testimony hinges on a double reckoning from the descent of Heraclidae. We have not been able to pull together all the strands of those events. God proclaims the Ten Commandments from a flaming mountain to the accompaniment of trumpets and in a voice heard by all the people. As the last one of them reached the west coast, Moses wanted to strike the sea again to close up the road, but Allah ordered him: Let the sea open; they will be drowned soldiers. Solomons 4th year would fall in 906 BCE, dating the Exodus to 1386 BCE. Her successor from 1342 to 1333 B.C. After the expulsion of the Hyksos and Israelites from Avaris the Israelites became the Shasu-YHW (wanderers of YHW) in the Trans Jordan for 300 years 1535-1235. Therefore, if there was an exodus the Israelites did not have a reliable date for it. No more, and no less. After Amesis, Egypt was ruled by Pharaoh Pamaitic iii. Her is her quote: Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up Jericho, Jericho and the Coming of the Therefore, any year before 741 B.C. The Israelite departure from Egypt was a hurried one. Rob, that was debunked as fake news ages ago. Can we bring a species back from the brink? If this is the case, this supports the validity for and the era of the Tel Amarna tablets. If Amenhotep II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus according to the above correlations, and he died at that time, then we should identify him as Amenhotep IIA and connect him with the Elephantine and Amada stelae of Year 3. Its easy to forget how simplistic the story can be when you strip it down. is the point of the greatest trouble in calculating actual years in Greek reckonings. In the same time, the Pharaoh had previously sent to the provinces of Egypt for a mobilization against the Israeli people, and vast crowds of Egyptian soldiers were gathered and equipped in the capital city. God never brought to Jerusalem, all the kings of the earth, client kings of the Persian Empire, to attack the city. The result of this communication forges an alliance between the Rephaims and Philistines with Egypt, against the local Israeli Hebrew population. Finkelstein also mentions a general destruction in the Late Iron age 1. Pharaoh was a magician, and even better at it than his court magicians. Exodus says God "hardened Pharaoh's heart," but Pharaoh first hardened his own heart by refusing to let the enslaved Israelites go. A fictionor fact is a false dilemma. I dare say more than belief but absolute acceptance that it is true. After a two-year period, Moses was returned to stay with his royal foster mother, though he continued to frequent the house of his nurse. In his late childhood, Moses was aware of the truth of his real family, and that he belonged to Israeli nation, but the matter remained as a secret among the Israeli people, who might have recognized through the correlative miracles that that boy would be their savior whom they had long dreamed of. Unlike the pharaoh who knew Joseph, the pharaoh of Moses is cruel and vindictive. Ramese II was not the pharaoh of the Exodus. Clement: Jephtha the Gileadite, of the tribe of Manasseh ruled 6 years , Clement: Abatthan. These families were expelled along the northern route out of the country, and settled in Judea. They employ the mechanism of magnification, whereby encounters with God are depicted in magnificent grandeur. When Moses asks him to release the Israelites . "Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. Osiris is known as the deity of Heliopolis. If you would consider any god but me, I will make you of the prisoners, thundered the tyrant. Did they walk there? At last, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt after celebrating the Passover. Although there is much debate, most people settle into two camps: They argue for either a 15th-century B.C.E. 1037 to 1036 B.C. . seems to support an Exodus during the Ramesside Period. 2. Fact or fiction? This might help. This brings into Egypt the language of Aram, which is later characterized as Syriac-Babylonian. See my blog The First and Second Exodus from Egypt. In Isaiah 52:4, we find the Jewish history that those who oppressed the Jews in Egypt before the Exodus were not Egyptian at all: they were Syrian or Assyrian. Moses felt fear within himself, but Allah told him that he would overcome just as he cast his stick. Some cases in point, did the Exodus happen as it is recorded in the Tanakh? The tablets, dated by some to ca. This is a loaded question. I hope so. The names mentioned does not support a 12th century exodus any more than a 12th century recount of the events. Is this a proto-Israelite house? Thus you have two archaeological events that coordinate to when we must date the Exodus or at least include as a potential date for the Exodus rather than the popular dates for the Exodus, which lack critical evidence for the Exodus that dating the Exodus at the time of Akhenaten provides. I just recently saw the Documentary called, Patterns of Evidence Exodus by Tim Mahoney that approaches this subject brilliantly with scientific and archeological evidence to back it up. The question Did the Exodus happen then becomes When did the Exodus happen? This is another heated question. with the invasion of Chushanrishathamin (Judges 3:8) , and remained the language of trade from 1450 B.C. Slavery in Egypt was a byproduct of not having a prison system to house criminals and POWs. Why didnt i think of it before! Following the happy result of their conversation with the elders, Moses and Aaron are ready to go to Pharaoh. What we have here is the aspect of objectification, by which intense or significant experiences of God are portrayed in the form of objective events. The days from the end of Dec. to the beginning of March, were not assigned to any month at all. She was worshipped with song and dance and drunken revelry. Arriving in Egypt, Moses and Aaron immediately undertook their mission. It is estimated that over a million Russian Jews emigrated in a space of 5 years. But still they refused to submit to Allah. Combine a one-year tablet and print subscription to BAR with membership in the BAS Library to start your journey into the ancient past today! What a ridiculous problem? There was NO reconciliation EVER. But the vast majority of the Children of Israel lingered: Moses, we will never enter it; so go you and your Lord together to fight them we are seated here, they ignominiously retorted. Language actually started with the Israelites in Egypt after Joseph and then Jacob/sons arrived. Perhaps the real event behind the Bibles Exodus story was the Hyksos expulsion? Yam Suf is not Red Sea or Reed Sea. The Five pastoral Judahite tribes lived at Goshen in Egypt from about 1630 to 1210.BC Out of Egypt: Israels Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination. Copyright 1996-2015 National Geographic SocietyCopyright 2015-2023 National Geographic Partners, LLC. My take is a 15th century (albeit late 15th, not mid) exodus is still not ruled out. However, Pharaoh changed his mind as soon as they left Egypt. Why? 1. The explanations presented here are very detailed and obviously done by spending much time piecing things together and using their calculators. One example of using the Patristic reckoning of Greek history is found in the dating of Homer, the author of many Greek myths and false deities. You are our Protector so, forgive and bless us: You are The Best Forgiver. The Exodus was c.1391 BC. The evidence is there for all to see but most miss it. Their Chancellor, Bay, one of the three leaders of Egypt at the time with Ramesses Siptah and Twosret, had likely died. What is that Lord of the existence? The 13th-century B.C.E. I have heard (but not done the counting myself) that the Bible makes about 2,000 mentions of the Exodus. He is the Lord of you all and your fathers of old, went on Moses. . It was with Cyrus I in Babylon, that the Greeks reckoned a 48-month cycle for each Olympiad in place of the 40-month cycle (Julias Africanus, Fragment 13 -.3). Well said Brother D, see you on that day! Exodus 2:23.. The Onomasticon Amenope is a list of categorized words from Egypts Third Intermediate Period. After the Children of Israel settled down at the right side of Al-Tour, Allah promised Moses an appointment after thirty nights, which should be spent in worship of Him, but as Moses went to the appointed place a little earlier than agreed, Allah ordered him to complete an additional ten nights of worship. Just finishing Velikovskys Ages in Chaos, had never heard of him until last month has there been any serious refutation of the solid reasoning behind his work? My conclusions? Doesnt matter, theres still no evidence of 2 million people wandering the dessertzero! However, after the suppression of Amarna, when the traditional religion came back, something new had been added: dogma. symbolizing that the earth is fit to inhabit after the giant flood has . May you all have meaningful sedarim, and a kosher and happy Pesach. The article in BAR is excellent. On reaching the site appointed by Allah, which was, and still is, a barren desert, Moses asked of Allah salvation from the lack of food and water that they encountered there. This suggests an Exodus after 1174 BC as the PLST were not in Canaan before that date and Israel feared the Philistines on her departure from Rameses in Egypt. When his cup became full, God removed him permanently. To determine the correct year of the Exodus, we simply add 479 to Solomon's fourth year, 967 BC, resulting in 1446 BC. Breathless with excitement, all who came there saw with their own eyes the Egyptian magicians casting onto the ground some sticks and ropes, and, as they all, including Moses and Aaron, were bewitched, the magicians tools appeared to them as if they were moving like snakes. Histories of Egypt, we find that A-mosis is really both Ahmose, and Tethmosis (Thummosis) the son of Alisphragmuthosis. Bozrah is Buseirah Edoms capital, and it is no earlier than the 7th century BC. The cities mentioned in the exodus story seem to exist in that time, and Ai was inhabited 1200-1050 BCE. 1005 B.C. The descent of Heraclidae 957 B.C. The Pharaoh of the Exodus Fairy tale or real history? Therefore, this Pharaoh is not the one who died in the Red Sea during the Hebrew Exodus in the era of the Hebrew Judges of Israel, who judged IN ISRAEL. 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