Biblical

Did The Exodus Happen?

Some evidence does exist that the Exodus did take place. For many years most archeologist were looking in the wrong going by church tradition (in some cases arab) rather than careful examineation of the Bibilical text. Most of the evidence comes from the Gulf of Aquba at the northern end of the red sea. On the Sinai Penensula side there is a large beach capable of holding 2-3 million people. A land bridge under the water goes all the way across the Saudi Arabia and with the deep point about 250 ft. The rest of the gulf the depths are in the thousands. On this land bridge there are unique to this area growths of coral that appear to have grown on wheels and axals. One gold covered 4 spoke chariot wheel was found (coral will not grow on gold) but was unrecoverable as attempts to move it would have destroyed it. Two pillars one found on each side of the land bridge placed there by King Solomon (900 -800 BC)to cormmemorate the crossing were also supposedly found.

The best pyramidologist agree that the Eygptians didn't build the pyramids of Giza (the Great pyramid and the 2 next to it) The other pyramids in Eygpt appear to be inferior copies of these. If you are really interested in the pyramids there is a great little 95 page book that focuses on the great pyramid at the below publisher.
 

The only link that may exist between the Exodus and the pyramid is that certain measue meants along passages appear to match up dates(1 inch = 1 year). I just started looking into this so I can say how reliable it is at this point. Unfortunately all my information comes from books (see the info at the bottom of my other post).
 

Chariot Wheel rebuttal

The gold chariot wheel is a hoax, gold was to heavy to use for this purpose as Egyptian chariots were pulled by two very small horses, the had few if any metal fittings, those would be bronze or copper. Egyptian chariots were made of wood and hard leather, they had 6 spoked wheels not four. See Stillman and tallis Armies of the Ancient Near east 3,000-539BC.

The only gold on a chariot would be some gold leaf decoration on those of the Pharaoh's guard which was rarely committed to action but used for parade duties.

The Hebrew language, and earliest versions of the account of Exodus refer to the crossing of the sea as happening in the REED SEA not the Red Sea, this is the region of the Nile delta where the marshes of the delta reach the sea,

Because Europeans did not know that the Sea of Reeds existed they assumed, incorrectly that it was a mistake for Red Sea.

Why Were the Jews in Egypt

First let's start at the beginning... A hebrew man named Jacob, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, had 12 sons. Jacob's name was changed to Israel by God, and the descendants of his sons became known as Israelites and the 12 tribes of Israel (one of which was the tribe of Judah from which sprang the Jews). One of the brothers, Joseph, was favored by Jacob (Israel) and his brothers were jealous of him. They sold him to slave traders who took him to Egypt. While there he gained favor in the sight of Pharaoh and was raised to a position of power in Egypt. He also interpreted a dream of Pharaoh which predicted 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine, and suggested that Pharaoh store grain during the years of plenty to survive through the famine.
During the famine, the brothers of Joseph were sent by their father to Egypt to purchase grain. Joseph revealed himself to them and brought the rest of their families, including his father, to Egypt to live with him.
At the beginning of the book of Exodus, it says that the Israelites multiplied and became extremely mighty, and that a new king arose in Egypt who did not know Joseph. Because the Israelites were growing mighty, they were seen as a threat by this new king, and so he put them into bondage, placing taskmasters over them to keep them from rebelling or joining with the enemies of Egypt should war arise.
Of course, this is just a quick synopsis of the story as it reads in the Bible. This should answer your question as to the Christian and Jewish view of the events.

Historical

Is Exodus Fact?

If the Exodus happened it is much later then the Pyramids which were built 2,580BC not by slaves but as a civic and national projects suing volunteers and paid labor. At this time the Hebrews or Habiru as they are also called were still in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. If Exodus happened it was most likely between 1,600-1,500BC, a thousand years later.

Far from slaves of the Egyptians the Hebrews, also called Habiru were part of a wave of Canaanite and Amorite Middle Eastern Semetic speaking invaders who in 1,720BC seize the city of Avaris in the northern Nile delta. This is the region of Goshen referred to in the Bible. It is held by the Canaanite Hyksos until around 1,560BC.

These invaders in 1,720BC are called the Hyksos and it is possible the Habiru also called Hebrew became slaves of one of their princes in the wars for control of northern Egypt that followed the invasion having been on a losing side as Hyksos princes fought each other for control.

By 1,674BC the Hyksos declared a "pharaoh" as ruler of Lower Egypt, he was called Salatis and was first in a line of "great Hyksos" or Hyksos Pharaohs to rule the divided nation of Egypt. The real Egyptians held out far down the Nile in Upper Egypt. The god of the Hyksos was called Baal, his Egyptian counter part was Set, both gods figure in the Bible as evil ones.

By 1,580BC there is a revolt under way by the Egyptians under Khamose and later his son Ahmose to restore Egypt and expel the Hyksos, their followers and slaves from the north of Egypt back across Sinai into Canaan. These campaigns take several generations to accomplish and result in the expulsion of all Canaanites, Amorites, the Habiru, and any Egyptians who have mixed with them from Egypt.

Exodus may recount the Hebrews flight from the Egyptians out for revenge on the Hyksos or from a Hyksos "Pharoah" who ruled them harshly.

Why Were the Jews in Egypt

to flee yet one more famine in their lands which they suffered through in regular cycles. They didn't exactly have the cream of the crop where land was concerned, which might cause one to wonder why? What was it about these Semitic peoples that caused them to appear to be 'marked' throughout history? What indeed?

2800 BCE gives us the first evidence of religious practices in Sumer, ploughs by 4500 BCE, sails by 4500 as well (which makes it convenient for Noah to sail down the Tigris on his barge when the Black Sea is formed from the barrage of salt waters flowing into it) ans the flood is probably about 4100 BCE. Everyone who survives comes down from Sumer and begins anew, and by 3400 BCE we have the first walled cities in Egypt, while the Semites are still running from oasis to oasis with their tents. Sumer is the first known civilization to have a complete social structure, and since both Noah and Abram (around 1700 BCE) have descended from Sumerian society, it might give us yet another clue as to their 'status'?


By 2040 BCE, the Egyptian Old Kingdom has been replaced with the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, and after fleeing yet another famine in their land, the Semites (or the Hyksos/Shepherd Kings as they're referred to in Egyptian hieroglyphics which we have no trouble reading at all today) established themselves in Egypt after infiltrating a weakened society, and began their rule over Egypt in 1786 BCE. In 1720 BCE, the Hyksos sacked Memphis, Joseph is born in 1620, is vizier to Hyksos king Apophis by 1570, while the Egyptian King (remember Upper and Lower Egypt) Seqenenre the Tao becomes king in 1574, is confined to Thebes by the Hyksos, and is subsequently murdered by Joseph's brothers attempting to steal the king making rituals from Seqenenre which he refused to do, in 1573. His mummy bears all the scars attesting to the Masonic (remember and think Egypt where they started) rituals still in use today.

Now, under Kamose, the second son of Seqenenre, the Hyksos (protoJews) are driven out of Egypt in 1567 BCE for Regicide, in the First Exodus. Regicide; the killing of a king or queen, and Big Taboo for those who do it. Between 1500 and 1450 BCE, Moses comes back for those left behind, but it may have been as small a band as 600? No matter what's been misconstrued to give the pre(proto) Jews power and importance they did not have (and the Egyptians would certainly have kept a record of a mass exodus from the country no matter the reason) they left Egypt for murdering the Egyptian King, Seqenenre. They murdered and had to suffer the consequences, just as Moses was a murderer, and his eventual 'brother' Aaron is a high priest of the pagan court of the Hyksos and never even heard of 'Yahweh' til Moses comes schlepping into Egypt to take the last of the Hysos (who wanted to go) out because Santorini has erupted, and he needs a following for his new religion with him as the head. Where oh where have we heard that same scenario before? Paul? Petie? Moses came back to mop up the last who were left and were being 'picked on' for being among some of the most brutal, conscienceless people of that history and region.

Two Grand Exoduses down the stairway, though neither occurred at Tara that we know?

There is also no record of the Hyksos settling anywhere in the region for their 'forty years' of wandering, which is pretty ridiculous when you consider they'd traveled to Egypt every time a famine came along, and they were pretty familiar with the route?

They stepped gingerly into swamp water covered with reeds misinterpreted as the Red Sea, and the rest is history as we know it today; usually pretty questionable when all the pieces have been put together?

The 'Jewish' struggle has never been about God, or gods (they did love Ba'al though and many others in a regular Pantheon of Gods and Goddesses) but the only struggle was to steal the king making rituals from the Egyptians, set up their dynasty in the very same manner as the Egyptians and the Babylonians (not one single altar anointed for God throughout the entirety of their 'captivity' in Babylon; guess they forgot God they were having such a swell time?) while not acknowledging it wasn't their idea from the beginning nor did they have the means, but gave themselves a history from Bethsheba as a gift to Solomon when he didn't have a history to make him feel good about himself, and then Solomon proceeds to become what many considered to be Pure Evil, and why? He was known as a Sorcerer and Magician by the way, acts punsihable by Jewish Law yet oddly he is not. Solomon knew enough of the king making rituals from his friendship and closeness with the Egyptian Royal House............ because he was of equal and royal lineage with David as his father. But where did David get his mandate? He was chosen by the same initiates and priests of the temple in Egypt rather than any legitimate bloodline through the Jews. He'd been chosen by 'other criteria'; the same which caused Joseph's brothers to butcher Seqenenre. The Jews which emrged owe much to their kinder Egyptian cousins, much more than has ever been acknowledged, to keep all the secrets safe, even if it means restraint on the Egyptians' part to this day. David and Solomon had no true connection to the protoJews who acted like the earth's first Nazis as the Hyksos beyond the acceptance of so many different tribes in the desert for unity and cohesion. It's why the blood is so important in the religion: it identifies certain tribes for whom every new kingdom needed to legitimize itself, changing names and all else which reflected their true past history (got to be pure from the beginning, even if it was just dreamed up this morning?) and eventually gave the Jews they became a supposed history which is actually impossible. The Old Testament is a history of other peoples' accomplishments like the Egyptians and the Babylonians who figure as the principal characters in the Opera. The deeds were not those of either the Hyksos, the protoJews, or the Jews they became. Never. Ever. It's a story of Becoming and not much more.

God love 'em forever. They've earned it being as clever as they were? They got a kingdom (two for awhile) and came out of Babylon in the last Diaspora with the Essenes as Hassidim firmly in place by 189 BCE. The Essenes, who demand they are not Jews to this day. But they most certainly claim Yahshua. They claim such distance for a reason.

When you have as many tribes and displaced peoples as were traveling here and fro to avoid the latest wars and famines, any and every combination is possible as time goes on?

This is about establishing kingdoms and murdering the Egyptian king to get the most intricate secrets of the rituals which enabled the king-to-be to travel out of body to the real world we all leave before we come here......... and a few others which are possible. It established the new king's right to rule, a 'divine right' which has permeated eastern and western thinking for millennia, because it gave kings, queens, emperors and empresses express permission to rule........ from the gods and goddesses themselves. It's the entirety of Yahshua/Jesus' Life as well. They failed all along. They failed. They failed a bit later too, when it really counted the most. The rest is hysteria borne of fear, torture, mayhem and murder to this day. It need not be so.

Hope this helps?

Hyksos

Why is Exodus so important to me?

Exodus was a crucial story for me. Simply because I grew up being taught that this and the rest of the Bible was literal truth of how the world came to be. This meant that everything happened the way it was written. Being the foundation of Judaism, Christianity and Islam I had to start my investigation from the beginning. I needed to search the oldest recorded civilizations to verify the story of Exodus and the claim that this is how the world came to be. ancient-egypt-map.jpg
Figure 1 Egypt is the oldest civilization and first to develop writing and have recorded much of their history.


First the Exodus tells us the people were not from Egyptian Africa they were Nomadic, Canaanite or Semitic in culture and language. So we go to Egypt that exists in both deeper Africa along the Nile (Upper Egypt) and North Africa along the Nile and into the marshes (Lower Egypt).  Egyptians mention a Semitic people known as the Hyksos or Haibru around 1,720BC. The same time some may pick up the story of Jacob. According to Egyptian sources the Hyksos were allowed to settle in Lower Egypt due to the famine and harsh conditions of Canaan.  Through superior weaponry these people eventually took control of Lower Egypt for 100 years. Upper Egyptian Pharaohs eventually took back their country and chased these people into Syria, claiming all the land in between  and establishing the 18th Dynasty. The unconventional arguments to the right of this page opened a window to these people of war that worshipped a war god.

Then we have the claim that the founders of Monotheism (Belief in One God), were the same people that were lead out of Egypt and into the promise land by God.  In the study of Egyptian Theology and Archeology you find something curios.  The Egyptians worshipped many disciplines yet believed they were all under one God much the way Greeks believed Zeus was King of the God's. The Egyptian Sun God was much the same way. Until a Pharoah came along and wiped all other gods away in favor of the one true Sun God.

The Pharaoh named Ankhenaten, Amenophis, or Amenhotep IV depending on your text book, is credited with being the first Monotheist in history. Ankhenaten was a Theologian (studied religious matters) that was thrust into Kingship after the death of his older brother. As Pharaoh he concerned himself with religious affairs and sought to change Religion in Egypt from many disciplines or religions to the one religious decipline.  It’s important to note that we worship what we do not understand or are in marvel of. We name this worship after discipline or science we develop to understand the marvel.  Astrology is the worship of the stars and can tell us a lot about the seasons on Earth. Without star gazers ancient people wouldn’t know when to plant and when harvest.  Religious ceremonies or holidays would mark the start of a season, time to harvest, or time to plant. Once Ankhenaten shutdown the many disciplines or religious temples in Egypt, he closed down the machinery that ran the greatest civilization in the world.  After the death of Ankhenaten son Tutankhaten later renamed King Tut Egyptian rulers tried to erase Monotheism. They eventually re-opens its closed Temples and restart its civilization. The question is what happened to the followers of the Monotheistic religion founded by Ankhenaten?

el-Amarna today was Akenaten in Ankhenatens reign. He founded the city and moved the capital there. This was the seat of the Pharaohs’ power and religious reform. All who lived there had to worship the Aten as the one and only God. The city shows signs that it was abandoned and not destroyed. So what became of this Monotheistic multitude? The capital of the greatest land in the world had to be huge, with people from all over the known world. Now Hyksos or Haibru play a critical role in this story as they were exiled into the furthest reaches of Egypt (Syria). After the death of Ankhenaten, his son Tutankhamun, and his religious reforms the Pharoah Ay (once a priest of Ankhenaten’s Monotheistic religion) sends the people of Akenaten to the farthest reaches of Egypt. Could the great battles told in the story of Exodus be between the hated Hyksos (Philistines) and the expelled followers of the Aten (Chosen People)? The hatred of the Philistines would make sense if they were the Hyksos who were chased out of Egypt centuries before. The order to kill men, women, and children by God could only make sense if the one true God was a God King or Pharaoh.

The timelines of Archeology match the timelines of the Bible yet many don’t like what the matches forces them to conclude about history and therefore the future. There are no separate Chosen people from the rest of us. There is never a cause to hold oneself higher than another. The evil one may see in the eye of another is the evil reflected from his own. God has never ceased revealing himself or his works so the claim of last Prophet, last revelation, last anything is only in the eye of the dead. I don't publish these pages as a means to debunk or attack Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. My hope is that you take away the same deeper need to read and research the history for yourself. There is a unity that all religions speak of. I believe all people and all cultures are linked. These links are proven in DNA and now our archeology. They show a building over time, an evolving, not these great leaps each generation tries to lay claim to making. This causes us to question our individual beliefs, about whom, where, and when we are. Ultimately my great breakthrough was, as I tried to prove the validity of any religious dogma, as literal truth, I found myself listening to fundamentalist teachings and writings that would re-shape any view to conform their own. This would cause the morality to become blinded to the morality of others and It did not matter the religion or discipline. Ultimately I found a common thread in them all that would unite them and a common thread that would divide them. The difference is in finding the spirit of a faith and its meaning to uplift you or finding the religion of a faith and rituals for you to do out of fear. They are both one in the same the choice is left to each of us, hope or fear? 10thLetter