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In the book of Exodus, Moses and company did a lot of thing to the Egyptians. There was the staff that turned into a snake, firstborns dying all over the place, diseases and so forth. The Egyptians seemed to be very good at writing everything down. Is there any physical evidence, hieroglyphs carved onto a rock or so, that gives us the Egyptian point of view of these events?

2007-01-23 21:46:56 · 6 answers · asked by Rabble Rouser 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

If the Wyatt Archaeological Research website is the best you can come up with then I feel sorry for you. Ron Wyatt's findings have been surrounded by controversy.

Have a look at: http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/nccg.htm

> To this day I cannot give a rational account for
> the extreme misguidedness that Wyatt
> revealed. What was happening in his head?
> His participation in our group worship times
> had left all of us in no doubt about his sincerity
> and his devotion to Scripture. He was a
> competent Bible scholar. He was a brother.
> Yet he had misled us terribly, and had offered
> no words of regret or apology or explanation.

That was a quote by someone who spent some time with Ron, or shall we call him RW like his namesake LRH. There is even charges that he planted the "evidence" he found while searching for Noah's ark.

2007-01-23 22:03:45 · update #1

Who's Extinct - It does not matter who did those things. The point is that according to the Bible they were done. Are you trying to tell me that if god did something then it's OK that we don't find any evidence. Does he magically remove any traces of his passing?

2007-01-23 22:06:29 · update #2

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There is actually very little corroborating evidence for the Exodus because it wasn't the Egyptians who were holding the Hebrews captive. The Exodus took place about 1450 BC, give or take, and the Egyptians did not occupy the Nile Delta at that time. The area was controlled by the Hyksos, who were of Syrian Descent. All sources, including Egyptian chronographers, called the leaders of the Hyksos "Pharoah" and two of them even assigned Egyptian dynasties to them.

I can offer some verification of the dates, though.

1) Moses' name was pronounced "Moshe" in Hebrew, which was very similar to the family names of the ruling house in Thebes: Ka-moshe, Ah-moshe, Thut-moshe, etc. Since the name "Moses" is never given to anyone else in the Bible, this suggests that the name was not Hebrew but Egyptian. Also, the name does not appear in Egyptian texts in any other period except these early 17th dynasty rulers.

2) Jericho was destroyed completely no later than 1400 BC (according to Kathleen Kenyon, senior excavator at the site).

3) By about 1250 BC, Hatshepsut in Egypt mentions in one monument the "nation" of Israel, already established

4) The disease that Moses called "leprocy" in the book of Leviticus was likely small pox, and the remedies he offered in the book were typical for defense against the spread of small pox, a very contagious disease that we know was killing off entire civilizations between 1400 and 1200 BC. The Ugarits and Hittites both disappear about 1200.

The reason why there are no records left behind is because the Hyksos themselves didn't leave behind any written records of their own. Not a single one has ever been found. Everything we know about them came from Egyptian sources and most of those were destroyed.

It's also interesting to note the way Moses kept time in the 5 books. He always mentioned the day, the month and the year, and this is done nowhere else in the Bible. This is precisely the way Egyptian pharaohs and generals kept records in their travels and campaigns during Egypt's middle kingdom. This suggests, again, that Moses was raised and educated in Egypt and influenced more by Egyptian custom than Hebrew.

2007-01-23 22:19:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

no longer purely are the thoughts of chariot wheels and horses heads that some genius stated whilst answering you a large style of hooey, darling, yet there is likewise no evidence of the slavery that the story claimed the classic Jews suffered. there have been actual Jews in historical Egypt - some have been extremely familiar adequate to have tombs close to the area of the pharaoh's tomb, and a few have been seen truthful adequate to serve at militia outposts...yet there is no evidence of slavery, and there is no flurry of interest glaring in historical Egypt to swap a vast style of workers - slave or loose - after the Jews supposedly left. upload to that the undeniable fact that there is no longer a single point out of any of the plagues the Bible describes everywhere in Egyptian texts, the undeniable fact that a column composed of over 600,000 adult males, with better halves, toddlers, and flocks could stretch for many, many miles, so as that the final ones could virtually be leaving Egypt because of the fact the 1st arrived on the crimson Sea, making the assumption of "pursuit" ridiculous, and the undeniable fact that there is no evidence of that style of human beings wandering the barren area for any length of time, and what you have is a narrative, no longer a historical past. BQ: No, or i could be sending the offspring to Hogwarts. (((DE)))

2016-11-01 03:47:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes, there is mentioned in Egyptian history the times of the Hebrew slaves helping to build one of their cities and temples. It is also mentioned that the Pharaoh of that time periods oldest son died a mysterious death. There is a lot of archaeological evidence also of their trip to Judea and the battles they fought. As I am at work at the moment, I do not have my research material at hand to give you more detailed info, but if you wish send me a E-Mail and I will later

2007-01-23 21:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by mark g 6 · 0 0

The Egyptians were also very good at burying things that embarassed them and their god-kings.

For a look at the people, locations, and events of Exodus, go here, and be prepared to think:

http://www.wyattmuseum.com/red-sea-crossing.htm

2007-01-23 21:51:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Unfortunately not. When I asked the question I was told that there was evidence of it in some tombs somewhere but no reliable sources were ever cited.

2007-01-23 22:08:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Moses did none of these things. God did them. Moses was a leader sent from God, and to keep it in simple terms, Moses was the "Law Giver" through God, as Elijah was the "Head Prophet" Remember at the transfiguration of Christ before he was crucified, that Moses and Elijah appeared to Christ.

2007-01-23 21:58:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ex Head 6 · 0 2

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