Exodus during the Ramesside Period, when Egypt’s 19th Dynasty ruled. The article “Exodus Evidence: An Egyptologist Looks at Biblical History” from the May/June 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review 1 wrestles with both of these questions-“Did the Exodus happen?” and “When did the Exodus happen?” In the article, evidence is presented that generally supports a 13th-century B.C.E. Although there is much debate, most people settle into two camps: They argue for either a 15th-century B.C.E. The question “Did the Exodus happen” then becomes “ When did the Exodus happen?” This is another heated question. Although biblical scholars and archaeologists argue about various aspects of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, many of them agree that the Exodus occurred in some form or another. Israel is followed by a hieroglyph that means a people. Yeno’am is made into nonexistence Israel is wasted, its seed is not.” Ashkelon, Gezer and Yeno’am are followed by an Egyptian hieroglyph that designates a town. Set up by Pharaoh Merneptah to commemorate his military victories, the stele proclaims, “Ashkelon is carried off, and Gezer is captured. 1219 B.C.E., the Merneptah Stele is the earliest extrabiblical record of a people group called Israel. Ref: Rabbi Mordechai Becher, “The Ten Plagues Live from Egypt”. Prayer: Heavenly Father, though I need no archaeological evidences to “prove” that the Bible is true, I thank You for these evidences because they may help convince skeptics to take a closer look at the Bible. The events described in the book of Exodus – like the events recorded in Genesis – are historically accurate. For us, the evidence couldn’t be more convincing. In all, Rabbi Becher points out 18 similarities where the Ipuwer papyrus lines up with the Scriptures. Here are just a few eyewitness observations from the Ipuwer papyrus that match the events in the book of Exodus: plague is throughout the land, the river (Nile) becomes blood and men thirst for water, grain has perished on every side, the hearts of animals weep while cattle moan, the land is without light, the children of princes have died, and precious metals and stones are “fastened on the neck of female slaves.” After all, their worldview is opposed to the historic reliability of the Bible.īut Rabbi Mordechai Becher, senior lecturer for the Gateways Organization, points out on his webpage that “the papyrus accurately describes violent upheavals in Egypt, starvation, drought, escape of slaves (with the wealth of the Egyptians), and death throughout the land.” He goes on to write, “The papyrus was written by an Egyptian named Ipuwer and appears to be an eyewitness account of the effects of the Exodus plagues from the perspective of an average Egyptian.” Of course, nearly all secular archaeologists attempted to say the papyrus does not describe these events. In the early 19th century, a papyrus was found in Egypt – called the Ipuwer papyrus – that appears to be an actual eyewitness account of the events recorded in the book of Exodus. “And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:”
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