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  • Given the timing of the Exodus (circa 1445 BC) and the destruction of Jericho (1405 BC) a good bet would be Queen Hatshepsut - the queen who ruled as king. One theory is that Moses was Senenmut, the queen's architect and chief counselor, who many moderns have supposed was also her lover. The records show that he fell from favor and disappeared sometime after the 9th year of her rule. His tomb was left unfinished, and he disappears from the historical record. It is also well known that Thutmose III went on a campaign to erradicate the memory and name of Hatshepsut AND Senemut - which is very strange considering Senemut disappeared over a decade before Thutmose III ascended the throne, and none of Hatshepsut's other counselors and intimates were similarly cursed. While most have just assumed that Thutmose III embarked on his campaign of revisionist history to destroy the memory of Hatshepsut because he resented the long usurpation of his throne by a woman, and that Senemut's memory just got caught in the fallout, the fact is that Thutmose III waited 15-20 years before damning the memory of their names. The thought is that something terrible happened -- terrible on the order of the 10 plagues of Egypt and the destruction of the Egyptian host in the Red Sea -- and that the real target was Senemut (i.e. Moses) and that it was Hatshepsut who was damned by association for bringing him into their midst in the first place. The downside of this theory is that in Senemut's unfinished tomb there are inscriptions indicating he was not a Hebrew, but an Egyptian born to common but literate Egyptian parents (his father named Ramose and his mother named Hatnofer) who were from a village near Thebes in the north, not Goshen in the south. Also, the tomb of his parents has been found, yielding more information: Senenmut is known to have had 3 brothers--Amenemhet, Minhotep and Pairy--and 2 sisters--Ahhotep and Nofrethor respectively. Whatever the merits and difficulties of the Senemut theory, the date of the Exodus would indicate a royal princess of the house of either Thutmose I or II, circa 1500-1480 BC. As a matter of political-theology, no Pharaoh or Egyptian royal is ever named in the Bible -- the Biblical authors' own form of "Damnation of Ones Memory". By ancient theology/superstition, to bury the name of a person is to damn/destroy/shame them utterly, while remember their name not only honors them, but actually gives them a kind of immortality.
  • Found by the Pharoahs daughter. Moses spoke to the Pharoah and said "let my people go" We have versions of very old stories written by people who could not substantiate their writings, knowing full well, that real history would fit with version of them. Just as Jesus's parents are not given surnames, neither is the Pharoah of the Moses' story. Think about why this is and you will find some truth, ...and it always hurts....(The truth.)

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