Having been overwhelmed again this week by the needs of others and feeling hopelessly behind in my studies on the book of Exodus, I have decided to put it on hold for this year and, with the help of the Creator, begin work on the Book of Leviticus next week. Meanwhile, I wanted to recommend this week’s and last week’s post by my friend and fellow sojourner Al McCairn, a.k.a. “The Barking Fox.” Until next week, shalom!
Ramesses II storming the Hittite fortress of Dapur. He was the most famous and powerful Pharaoh of Egypt’s New Kingdom, but contrary to prevailing opinion he was not the Pharaoh who withstood Moses.
Of all the pharaohs who ruled Egypt over the course of ancient history, only one had the dubious honor of facing Moses in a contest to see whose God was greater. We may not know exactly which pharaoh he was, but he most certainly was not Ramesses II. Such is filmmaker Timothy Mahoney’s conclusion in his astounding documentary, Patterns of Evidence: Exodus. Mahoney presents a compelling case for reconsidering the accepted timeline of ancient Egyptian history. He bases his case on considerable evidence that Israel’s presence in Egypt, the Exodus, and the conquest of Canaan actually happened two or three hundred years earlier than has been supposed.
For centuries we have assumed that Raamses II…
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Thanks for the reblog!