Israelites left Egypt

After Pharaoh let the people go, the Israelites left Egypt. The actual route the Israelites travelled from Egypt to Canaan has a multitude of theories. Even though the Bible is detailed in explaining the route, it is difficult to reconstruct. The names of all the places have either been lost in history, changed, or an …

Decline of Egypt

The Egyptian civilization has been one of the longest lasting civilizations in human history. In ancient times, it had been a powerhouse and dominated the entire Middle Eastern region for thousands of years. “For almost 30 centuries—from its unification around 3100 B.C. to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.—ancient Egypt was the …

Non-Biblical accounts of the exodus out of Egypt

Non-Biblical accounts of the exodus out of Egypt. Hecataeus “The earliest non-biblical account is that of Hecataeus of Abdera (c. 320 BCE), as preserved in the first century CE Jewish historian Josephus in his work Against Apion and in a variant version by the first-century BCE Greek historian Diodorus.[88] Hecataeus tells how the Egyptians blamed …

Ipuwer Papyrus

Similarities of the plagues in the Exodus account was written by the Egyptians in 19th Dynasty, the Admonitions of Ipuwer (Ipuwer Papyrus). “The Ipuwer Papyrus has been dated no earlier than the Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1250 BCE.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipuwer_Papyrus The Ipuwer Papyrus was written by a royal Egyptian scribe of the same name. He tells a …