by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
Exodus 1: 8 “Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.” Mummy of Ramesses the Great Exodus 14:23 “The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.” Battle of Kadesh, Temple...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2016 | Passover
Numbers 33:5-7: “The Israelites set out from Rameses… and they encamped at Migdol.” Slaves Escaping into Sinai Are Seen at Migdol, Papyrus Anastasi V, c. 1250 BCE: “I was sent forth from the broad halls of the palace… following after two slaves. When I reached...
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...
