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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: edu on March 28, 2013, 03:47:47 AM
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Of all the articles I have seen so far, the best one seems to be a Hebrew article by
Daniel Moshe Levi and Yosef Rothstein
at http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/maamarim/hatanach1-2.htm (http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/maamarim/hatanach1-2.htm)
One of their basic points is that the way Egyptian History is conventionally dated is wrong and so the conventional candidates for the Biblical Yosef and The Pharoah of the Exodus are way off base and therefore it is difficult to find a correspondence between the Egyptian record and the Biblical record.
If you move up the story of Yosef and the seven years of famine and the Exodus to way earlier in Egyptian History, you will find the correspondence.
If you want a somewhat loose not so good translation you can go to the translate section of Google and plug in the above web site to at least get a rough idea.
I am open though to an alternate theory, since the findings of archaeology are often flimsy and subject to a wide number of interpretations and maybe maybe something better exists.
Also keep in mind that history in ancient Egypt was often written by State Propagandists who altered or silenced unpleasant facts to please the ruling elite.
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that can't be. we were told Egyptians were all brothaz. pharoah dragged his knuckles on the sand. they found knuckle prints inside the pyramids.
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Of all the articles I have seen so far, the best one seems to be a Hebrew article by
Daniel Moshe Levi and Yosef Rothstein
at http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/maamarim/hatanach1-2.htm (http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/maamarim/hatanach1-2.htm)
One of their basic points is that the way Egyptian History is conventionally dated is wrong and so the conventional candidates for the Biblical Yosef and The Pharoah of the Exodus are way off base and therefore it is difficult to find a correspondence between the Egyptian record and the Biblical record.
If you move up the story of Yosef and the seven years of famine and the Exodus to way earlier in Egyptian History, you will find the correspondence.
Definitely true, IMO. The Egyptologists are in conflict with the dating system of modern Archaeologists. The Archaeology Cabal changed the dating system and also sought to erase Jewish connection to Israel in favor of arabs. There is no possible way to deny that that bias was involved.
Either way, their dating is wrong and when using the dating of Egyptologists (which used to be accepted dating until the Archaeology self-haters and nazis changed it), there is evidence found for records of the 10 plagues for instance.