3/6/2024 0 Comments Moses vs pharaohTo find it, we must look at the Egyptian records in another way and take up a vital clue in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 1 verse 14, where it says that the Egyptians made the lives of the Children of Israel “bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick.” We can ask it again this year and try to find an answer more accurate than that of this year’s film or of the older films The Ten Commandments (19) and The Prince of Egypt (1998). But it is a question that comes up every year before Passover, when we Jews celebrate our escape from Egyptian slavery into freedom. So it is embarrassing for archaeologists to be asked who the pharaoh of the Exodus was. But there is nothing in the Egyptian records linking Ramesses to the Exodus, and indeed nothing at all in the records about the Israelites and their slavery, nothing about their escape into the Sinai after the plagues, nothing about the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea – nothing. The recent film Exodus, Gods and Kings had Ramesses the Great as the step-brother of Moses and the pharaoh of the Exodus. Israel News Health & Wellness WORLD NEWS Middle East Business & Innovation Opinion Archeology Login Log Out NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) Who was the pharaoh of the Exodus? - The Jerusalem Post
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