by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
Exodus 12:15: “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread…” Egyptian leavened bread from the Tomb of Kha, 1351 BCE, Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
Exodus 5:18: Pharaoh: “So go now and work; for you will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.” Wall painting from the Tomb of Rekhmire, 15th Century BC Papyrus Anastasi IV, 1250 BC: “. . . and there are neither men to make bricks nor...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
Was there a man called Moses, and if so, when did he live? Exodus 7:7: “Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.” Deuteronomy 34:7: “Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
The first extra-biblical evidence of Israelites being in the land of Canaan exists on the enormous victory stele of the Egyptian king Merneptah. The Pharaoh Merneptah, son of Ramesses II, The Great, writes (Reading from right to left): “Canaan is plundered with every...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
Deuteronomy 26:5-10: “My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation. The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and oppressed us; they imposed heavy labor upon us. We...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
“Unleavened Bread” as a Reason for Expulsion of Jews from Spain March 31, 1492, The Edict of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain: “…they have had means and ways they can to subvert and to steal faithful Christians from our holy Catholic faith…carrying to them and...