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To: Junior

Well, that does'nt concern me too much. Many of the Pharaohs that we know about have left no evidence of their existence beyond their name written on their kid's or grandkid's tomb that has been terribly desecrated.

It is also unlikely that the Pharaoh upon whose watch the events in Exodus took place, was eager to have that memorialized or otherwise enscrolled. Call it the "Sir Robin's Minstrels Effect". If you've ever seen that flick, If you have'nt, call it the "LBJ Effect". Or the "Jimmy Carter Effect". ;-)


349 posted on 05/25/2005 1:57:06 PM PDT by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat [Born in California, Texan by the Grace of God.])
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To: L,TOWM
From the clues given in the Bible (1 Kings 6:1), the Pharaoh at the time of Exodus was probably Amenhotep II (1427 to 1400 BC).  However, it could have been Amenhotep's predecessor, Thutmose III (1458 to 1427 BC)(Exodus 7:7 and Acts 7:23).

In either case, each left pretty extensive records, especially of his military adventures.  Remember also, the Egyptians recorded literally everything, including the sales of slaves.  Hundreds of such sales records exist from this period, but none mention anything to do with Hebrew slaves.  Indeed, the entire historic record is mute on this point.

358 posted on 05/25/2005 2:16:07 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: L,TOWM
see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Kingdom_of_Egypt

Amenemhat III (1817 BC - 1772 BC) was the last great Pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom. Egypt's population began to exceed the food production levels and Amenemhat III ordered the exploitation of the Fayyum and increased mining operations in the Sinaï desert. He made sure that nomarchs could no longer inherit their nomes as Amenemhat II had allowed. He also invited Asiatic settlers to Egypt to labor on Egypt's monuments. But late in his reign the annual floods began to fail and his son Amenemhat IV ruled 10 years (1773 BC - 1763 BC) before dying prematurely.

If a person is willing to put a few minutes into studying Egyptian history and cross referencing it with the Bible it is possible to see the correlation.
591 posted on 05/25/2005 8:51:56 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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