Posted: Apr 14, 2016 11:10 am
by Agrippina
Hobbes Choice wrote:
Agrippina wrote:Cute. Thanks Piper.


Who was Pharoah at the time of the "exodus"?
Why is his name not in the bible, and how can you tell?


Exodus speaks about "Raamses".

Exodus 1:11 They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses

Between 1307 and 1070, there were nine kings named Ramses, so you tell me, which one?

Pi-Ramesses (/pɪər.ɑːmɛs/); (Pi-Ramesses Aa-nakhtu, meaning "House of Ramesses, Great in Victory")[1] was the new capital built by the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt Pharaoh Ramesses II (Ramesses the Great, reigned 1279–1213 BC) at Qantir, near the old site of Avaris. The city had previously served as a summer palace under Seti I (c. 1290–1279 BC), and may have been originally founded by Ramesses I (c. 1292–1290 BC) while he served under Horemheb.

From the Wikipedia page on Pi-Ramesses.

So if they actually were there, and actually lived there, then, given the name of the city, it would have had to have been between 1307 and 1070.

What is a problem is that none of the kings ruled for long enough for Joseph or Moses to have had a continuing relationship with them.

Also that the Egyptians have no records whatsoever of the Jews running their country or building their edifices.