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Nice name. Nice typo.

People usually do not like to keep records of their greatest failures. Propaganda is telling the side of the story that makes me look good.

Purging or re-telling losing events is a way to keep National pride in tact. Especially after such a resounding defeat at the hands of the God of the Israelites who stomped them on their home turf. God used the 10 plagues to trounce the Magicians and Religious leaders of Egypt who had deceived their people for generations.

Things have gone so far that the Egyptians claim to have build the Pyramids themselves. This is such a crock!

2007-10-04 17:00:34 · answer #1 · answered by realchurchhistorian 4 · 2 0

Yes, there is an excellent, well researched scholarly book (still entertaining and easy to read though) called the "Exodus Case" by Dr. Lennart Moller.

It's a great read, lots of quality color photos. He documents the real Mr. Sinai which is in Saudi Arabia, not on Sinai. He also has photos of the remains of the Chariots lining the bottom of the land bridge in the Red Sea.
He also makes a strong case for identifying certain individuals in the Egyptian record as Moses and Joseph (Ancient cultures would change names for the culture you were in, plus many pharaonic names were titles of sorts).

2007-10-04 16:44:23 · answer #2 · answered by Wiseacre 2 · 3 0

I don't know, But I do know that when pharoahs didn't like something, they had the history erased.

This occurred all over Egypt and the evidence is there today -- I have seen it for myself.

When a pharoah came to power, if he didn't like the previous pharoah's story, he would have his henchmen chisel it off of the tombs and pillars, so that it could no longer be read, or he would have his own name chiseled over it.

And the fact that the Jews LEFT Egypt might also be a determining factor in what the recorded history about them may or may not be.

We do know that the Jewish people were slaves in Egypt, and even the modern Egyptians believe this as part of their history.

2007-10-04 16:40:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

There is plenty of indirect evidence, such as:

-growing Asiatics (Middle Easterners) settling in Egypt during Middle Kingdom times
-The Hyksos, an asiatic people, gaining power in Egypt to form the second intermediate period in egyptian history
-Egyptian records show the maltreatment of slaves during the period the Israelites were supposed to have stayed in Egypt
-The price of slaves as recorded in the Bible is the same as that in Egyptian records
-Moses comes from the egyptian word, for example pharaoh Tuthmoses..


There is also direct evidence, like the Merneptah stele which was recorded in 1200 BCE, not too far from the exodus period, which records a people 'Israel'

2007-10-04 18:16:06 · answer #4 · answered by rowen77 2 · 1 1

I think you mean "historical".
There are very few people in
America today that would know
what the recorded history of
Egypt says about Moses.
Firstly,it is not even known
if any history was recorded
in Egypt pertaining to Moses.
If one would research the
sons of Seti, they might find
his name but it would be
his Egyptian name not his
Hebrew name.

2007-10-04 16:45:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I took a center eastern faith and mythology direction some years in the past, so my reminiscences are somewhat fuzzy. although, we did a great form of speaking approximately how Egyptian and Christian religions are interrelated. I undergo in innovations that there have been descriptions of activities that could have been construed via fact the ten plagues. case in point "and the rivers ran crimson and have been as blood" became defined by unusual flooding that picked up crimson minerals that have been poisonous. there became an relatively lean era in Egyptian historic previous at that factor, so the swarms of locusts have been a threat to the ravenous electorate and meager vegetation. this is all i will undergo in innovations, yet it fairly is an attractive question. i pass to pass study up on that, thank you!

2016-10-10 08:18:34 · answer #6 · answered by sutliff 4 · 0 0

There are no records of Hebrew slavery in recovered Egyptian texts and artefacts under Rameses II.

That's easy to explain. Egyptians saw writing as a form of magic. A classic form of punishment was to be "erased" from documents. It is easy to conclude that Rameses had all information on Hebrews destroyed out of revenge, believing that being "erased" would doom them in the afterlife to wander forever between life and death.

This happened to Nefertari, a general-princess who mounted a revolt against the religious authorities of her time. It was officially mentioned in a text found in a temple, that any mention of her had to be erased. Analyses of various items like pillars and statues showed that the images of Nefertari hadn't been damaged by time, but destroyed with carving tools.

It's easy to assume the same thing happened to the hebrews...

2007-10-04 16:41:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Some people consider the stories proof, and I find them pretty hysterical.

2007-10-05 03:45:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Nah it never happened and definitely not like that.

Besides scriptures are to be read allegorically and are esoteric in their meanings. Has nothing to do with actual history, it is a narrative of mind and being as you travel in the way to know thy self and enter the inner kingdom.

There are so many Moses type stories in many pagan mystery religions. Nothing historical about it and even if there was a slight historical nature to it, once it is put in scriptures ITS immediately referring to completely different realities, those of mind.

2007-10-04 16:47:11 · answer #9 · answered by Automaton 5 · 2 1

Gwen H yet, somehow we still find evidence of people like Nefitari....yet nothing on the supposed slavery of THOUSANDS?!?!?! Then, what of the mentions of the violent, nomadic tribe the Egyptians called the "haibru"?

2007-10-05 03:58:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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