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  • I doubt it. According to my professional archaeologist friend it's these very hieroglyphics that show serious discrepancies between what the Bible says about the history surrounding Jesus plus other Biblical characters and the dates that are associated with them.
  • Not to my knowledge. Egyptian hieroglyphics almost always tell only the good things that happened to Egypt. Just like most other people, they would rather forget about the bad things that happen. With love in Christ.
  • "Although there have been various attempts at placing Moses in a historical context of the Late Bronze Age or the Bronze Age collapse, his historicity cannot be established. Archaeological surveys of ancient settlements in Sinai do not show a great influx of people around the time of the Exodus (given variously as between 1500–1200 BCE), as would be expected from the arrival of Joshua and the Israelites in Canaan. According to Prof. Ze'ev Herzog, Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University "This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel: the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the 12 tribes of Israel.... The many Egyptian documents that we have make no mention of the Israelites' presence in Egypt and are also silent about the events of the exodus. The views of the mainstream archaeological community can be represented by Israel Finkelstein and William Dever. Finkelstein points to the appearance of settlements in the central hill country around 1200 as the earliest of the known settlements of the Israelites. A cyclical pattern to these highland settlements, corresponding to the state of the surrounding cultures, suggests that the local Canaanites combined an agricultural and nomadic lifestyles. When Egyptian rule collapsed after the invasion of the Sea Peoples, the central hill country could no longer sustain a large nomadic population, so they went from nomadism to sedentism. Dever agrees with the Canaanite origin of the Israelites but allows for the possibility of some immigrants from Egyptian among the early hilltop settlers, leaving open the possibility of a Moses-like in Transjordan ca 1250-1200. Biblical minimalists such as Philip Davies and Niels Peter Lemche regard the Exodus as a fiction composed in the Persian period or even later, without even the memory of a historical Moses. Hector Avalos, in "The End of Biblical Studies," states that the Exodus, as depicted in the Bible, is an idea that most biblical historians no longer support." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Historicity
  • Here is something related to the subject of Moses and Pharaoh: "Haman as mentioned in the Holy Quran" Praise and glory to Allah (he who said) in the Holu Quran what means: (Pharaoh said: O Chiefs! No god do I know for you but myself: therefore, o Haman! Light me a (kiln to bake bricks) out of clay, and build me a lofty palace, that I may mount up to the god of Moses: but as far as I am concerned, I think (Moses) is a liar! ) ( al-qasas, verse 38) The Pharaoh mentioned in this verse is talking to the nobles of his nation telling them that he knows no God for them except himself, so he calls for Haman asking him to build him from the baked clay "which is the bricks" a high building so that he may see Moses’ God . This verse points to many miracles such as: 1- Pharaoh making himself a God: as in saying ( No god do I know for you but myself ) the archeological researche which had been found on the ancient Egyptian civilization assure that the Pharaohs since the fourth dynasty claimed that they are the children of "god Raa "- the god of the sun which was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians , not only this but also the name "Raa" was among the pharaohs’ surnames such as "Raa Nip" , which means the golden god, and as "Pristed" the archeological scientist said "the most obvious proof that the Pharaohs were making themselves gods could be a song for the sun which had been saved by the texts of the pyramids repeated in it the identification of the Pharaoh as the god of the sun, this song is talking to Egypt including a wonderful long listing of the benefits that Egypt was enjoying them under the protection and ruling of the god of the sun in order of this he gives the Egyptian pharaoh the same benefits therefore, he must receives the same gifts from Egypt that is why the whole song is repeated again putting the name of pharaoh wherever comes the name of "Raa or Horase "in the original song". 2- The second miracle is using the pharaohs the bricks in building towers: Pharaoh asked Haman to build him a lofty palace "or a tower" from the baked clay which is the bricks, and this is considered as a historical miracle of the Holy Quran, as it was a common thought to the historiographers that the bricks didn’t appear in ancient Egypt except after the age of Romans, and this is according to the opinion of the historiographers makes an arguing about that verse which declares the demand of Pharaoh that Haman should build him a lofty palace from the baked clay or the bricks, and that remained the opinion of the historiographers until " Patry" an archeological scientist discovered an amount of burned bricks which used in building entombments and also used in establishing some of the bases of the buildings return back to the ages of the Pharaohs "Rammsis the second , Mrinbtah and Sity the second" from the nineteenth family (1308-1184 b.c ) and he discovered them in an archeological site not far away from ( Be Rammsis or kantir ) the Capital city of those pharaohs in the east of the Delta 3- The third miracle is pointing to one of pharaoh's assistant by his name "Haman" : Professor Morris Bokay mentioned the following: The Holy Quran is mentioning a person called Haman who is one of pharaoh's attendants , and that last one demanded from him to build a high tower or a lofty palace allowing pharaoh as he said sarcastically from Moses to mount it and reach the God of his belief . And I wanted to know if that name isn’t connected to a hieroglyphic name, It could be saved as a document of the documents of that age, so then "Nakhara" would be occurred which means "writing the letters of a language in the letters of another language" from a language to another , and I won't satisfied with an answer except if it is coming from an expert in the hieroglyphic language and also knows the Arabic language in a good way , so I asked a French egyptologue scientist the two previous mentioned conditions were perfectly available in him , I wrote in front of him the Arabic name of the eminent man "Haman" but I didn’t mention to him anything about the reality of the concerned text and just told him that this text is related to the seventh century a.c in a doubtless way, his first answer was that origin is impossible because it is not possible to find a text including a name of an eminent man in the hieroglyphic language and also having a hieroglyphic rhyme related to the seventh century a.c and it won't be well known till now ,that is because the hieroglyphic language had forgotten a long time before, on the other hand he advised me to check the dictionary of personal names of the new empire and to search for this name which symbolizes to me the hieroglyphic language if it is really found , he was just assuming this, and while searching I found it written in this dictionary exactly as I expected and Oh...What a surprise!! not only I found his name but also I found his job as it was written in German language "the chief of quarrying workers" but without any sign to the date of the text except that it is related to the empire which Moses' age was during it , and the job which was written points out that the mentioned parson was interested in the construction field, what makes us think of the comparison we can make between the order that pharaoh ordered in the Holy Quran and between what was specified in what was written. God says: ( Pharaoh said: O Chiefs! No god do I know for you but myself: therefore, o Haman! Light me a (kiln to bake bricks) out of clay, and build me a lofty palace, that I may mount up to the god of Moses: but as far as I am concerned, I think (Moses) is a liar! ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference: "The Holy Quran and the contemporary science" by Professor Morris Bokay
  • No. Nor would we expect any. Considering the horror of what they experienced with the 10 plagues and at the Red Sea, they never would have mentioned it. They would have gone out of their way to bury any trace of it, forget it, and even forbid anyone to ever mention it. This tendency is actually common to human beings: human beings record catastrophes they understand; they try to forget the ones they can't or won't. The documentary record from and following WWI is mountainous: the documentary record of the Influenze pandemic of 1919 ("The White Plague") that killed more than twice as many people in a 6th the time (80,000 in 6 weeks in Philadelphia alone) is almost non-existant. In fact, nobody even started talking about it until the 1970s in the wake of the Legionaire's disease panic... but by then we understood viruses and so didn't have the same level of terror.
  • The Bible is a compendium of works, some of historic significance such as Kings; other supposedly prophetic while some are mere poems. In many cases the actual authors are unknown and their names have been lost in antiquity. While the first five books are traditionally ascribed to Moses, they were the product of the oral traditions of the Israelites. It is generally accepted by scholars that these books were written by a variety of authors and not by Moses. They are quite different in style and context. According to legend as was orally transmitted through the generations, Moses regularly spoke with Yahweh who instructed him to ensure that the Israelites do not worship any other gods. In the instances where they faltered he would threaten that Yahweh would rise up in anger and destroy them. Legend has it that Moses would then on their behalf beg Yahweh to have mercy on them and he would relent. This made Moses a very powerful and revered leader among his people but you must realise that when he told them Yahweh had spoken to him, he was merely using mysticism to manipulate the people. Through the centuries which followed, these myths were embellished and strengthened to the extent that they are taken for the absolute truth. Indeed for them to question the ‘truth’ as depicted by their scriptures was considered to be heresy and therefore punishable by death. The legends around Moses were the combined legends of thousands of years compiled by different unknown writers and story tellers; there were many discrepancies as one would expect; some learned people even doubted that he actually existed. There is also no record of him actually living in Egypt. The Egyptian records which were written on stone show no evidence of him. Neither is there any record that he had caused the death of a whole Egyptian Army and its Pharaoh or king except as is told in the Bible. If indeed he existed, I believe that to protect his leadership and his belief in Yahweh, he manufactured instructions and even laws which he believed would be in the interest of his people. Remember that to strengthen his power base, he told them Yahweh had spoken to him. This made him the go-between between their god and the people of Israel which you will understand made him a very powerful person, even a person to fear. (Source "Moses was a Liar" by Brian Stewart Raider Books NY. 2009)
  • yes there is a written record showing a migration of people from eygpt there is also evidence that an eathquake could have created a parting of the waters at about the same time and a large death rate amongst the first born is also evident-most occurances and locations in the old testment have been found true although the dating suspect-remmember the bible has been interpreted and re interpreted from its original sources therefore dates and names can be easily corrupted over the years
  • Nope. There's some evidence of hebrews being in egypt - which is not surprising as egypt was often host to refugees and visitors. There is also no record of the egyptians having the one race of slaves for four hundred years. Even if, by some astounding coincidence, no-one recorded the plagues and so on - you would expect that 400 years of existence would have some record, in a country known for the keeping of meticulous records...

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