Having visited Egypt (never, EVER, go into a pyramid, crawling down a long stone shaft, with someone in front of you who has clausterphobia!) I spent time with an Egyptologist who wants to somehow link history with the Exodus book. While some of it is obviously forced, he indicated that if you could just push the story a couple of centuries, there was an Pharoah "Tuthmosis" (or Mosis of the god Thoth") and that when he died, his wife became regent while their son grew up and until he was old enough to take over. The Egyptologist speculated that this would have been the perfect point in the story to have the baby Hebrew brought in and raised, and was called "Mose" (a ש in Hebrew can have a "S" or "SH" sound) because he was made part of the family "Mosis".
Not a bad story. But it's still a story and there is no tablet found that says "Let it be known that a baby was found and brought into the palace". He also showed me a table, that he said translated to "I found a people named Israel and destroyed them." And he also told me that much of what was written was propaganda, since while we know much of Egyptian successes, their failures are rarely written down.
Not a bad story. But it's still a story and there is no tablet found that says "Let it be known that a baby was found and brought into the palace". He also showed me a table, that he said translated to "I found a people named Israel and destroyed them." And he also told me that much of what was written was propaganda, since while we know much of Egyptian successes, their failures are rarely written down.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
