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Originally posted by RedBeardRay
I read a very interesting book called "The Hiram Key" A few months ago. Now yes it is a masonic book, but that isn't really the point. The authors of the book suggested that the Israelis were the Hittites. The Hittites were a "Foreign" People who ruled Egypt for a period of about three hundred years, then were driven out/left Egypt. It's an interesting concept, I'm not sure how valid it is, but something to consider none-the-less.
Originally posted by ABNARTY
ashraf62.wordpress.com...
Go ahead and flame me if this has been covered before but I checked the search engine multiple ways and got nothing on this.
This is an excellent blog entry from Dr. Ashraf Ezzat. In short, it discusses the lack of evidence connecting the Israelites to Egypt in any meaningful way congruent to the stories we are told today.
1. Egypt or Egyptians are mentioned in the Bible 700 times. Israel mentioned in Egyptian records? Once, maybe.
2. Canaan was an Egyptian territory at the estimated times of the Exodus. Why would the Israelites flee from one part of Egypt...to another?
3. When the Israelites are mentioned it is as a nomadic people, not a nation or country.
4. The seed of the Exodus story has probably been expanded and stretched to what we read today.
Disclaimer: I am no expert but the reasoning seems pretty sound. Your thoughts ATS?
The Merneptah Stele—also known as the Israel Stele or Victory Stele of Merneptah—is an inscription by the Ancient Egyptian king Merneptah (reign:1213 to 1203 BC) discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1896 at Thebes, and now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.[1][2] The text is largely an account of Merneptah's victory over the Libyans and their allies, but the last few lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, then part of Egypt's imperial possessions, and include the first probable instance of the name "Israel" in the historical record
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Originally posted by ABNARTY
reply to post by Awen24
Really Dude???
Not rocket science - You are implying what? A great deal of knowledge on that which, by your own authority, there seems to be little agreement? Then that knowledge is about as valuable as what?
Linking history to the Bible? So the Bible is a history book? On what planet? And an agreed timeline? Of events which were handed down to provide inspiration not factual data? Good stuff...
Originally posted by ABNARTY
reply to post by Awen24
Most of the scholarship mentioned is assumption or belief based on yet further assumption of belief. Unless someone has a time machine how are we going to define the accuracy of said scholarship?
Originally posted by ABNARTY
ashraf62.wordpress.com...
2. Canaan was an Egyptian territory at the estimated times of the Exodus. Why would the Israelites flee from one part of Egypt...to another?
For many centuries, Egyptians had a fluent trade and peaceful relationships with the Asiatic. In this time the Biblical accounts of Avraham and Yoseph took place. After this period Egypt was ruled successively by Semitic kings. These Semitic kings were referred to by the Egyptians as the "Hekau-Khasut", the "Shepherd kings", or also "Hyk-Khase", the "Rulers from a foreign hill country". These terms are commonly transformed into "Hyksos," a word which is not confined to the chieftains but is mistakenly applied to the Semitic people (termed the Aamu by the Egyptians) from which they stemmed. Although the hegemony of these "Asiatic" included all Egypt, Canaan and extended into a major portion of Mesopotamia, they established no dynasties. They were elected by the village chieftains (the Hyk-Khase) of the Aamu villages, and therefore can be properly designated as the chief-of-chiefs.