"What if the whole story of the Exodus from Egypt was a fake story, and what if we could prove that it is?"
By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat
There wasn’t a time when I did not feel
uneasy about the story of the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt. Actually,
uneasy is an understatement, for I was always irritated by this
notorious story of Moses and Pharaoh of Egypt. Somehow, this Israelite
tale couldn’t seem to fit in the history of ancient Egypt nor in my
mind. Unlike most people, I couldn’t take that incredible tale for
granted.
Whenever we say ‘the Exodus’ everybody
unconsciously and instantly recognizes the story as the fleeing of the
Israelites headed by Moses from the grip of Egypt’s ruthless Pharaoh.
Thanks to the Church, Synagogue, and Mosque and of course Hollywood
films this Exodus story has sunk deep in the collective subconscious of
the masses, so deep that the story of Moses and Pharaoh has turned into
an almost unshakable historical truth that once took place in Ancient
Egypt.
But actually nothing in the ‘milieu of
that story’ indicates that it happened in Egypt, except maybe the
mistaken association between ‘Pharaoh’ and ‘King’ of Egypt.
Likewise, nothing in ancient Egyptian
records or its oral tradition say or even allude to the fact that this
tale of Moses really happened in Egypt. Even more shocking is the fact
that the ancient Egyptian records do not refer to the Kings of Egypt as
Pharaohs. Yes, Pharaoh was never a title for Egypt’s king. Linking
Pharaoh to Ancient Egypt is merely a myth propagated by centuries of
falsehood brought about by misleading interpretation of Biblical
history.
The only reason we know the story of the
Exodus happened in Egypt is because the Bible says so. We keep on
believing that is the case because mainstream Egyptologists just went
along with the Biblical narrative and absentmindedly designated Egypt’s
Kings as Pharaohs. But if we examined the Hebrew text the Bible
(currently in our hands) used as a reference we will strangely not find
Egypt mentioned in it as the site/land of the Exodus story.
The whole mess/deception took place
during translating the Hebrew/Aramaic stories into Greek back in the
third century BC. This is when Egypt was first hijacked and forcibly
placed in the Hebrew Bible as the theater of the Israelite landmark
stories. Ironically this whole act of duplicity took place on Egyptian
soil and specifically at its legendary library of Alexandria.
But what if the Bible as we know it has long been tampered with?
What if the whole story of the Exodus from Egypt was a fake story, and what if we could prove that it is?
- What if the first western translation of the so-called Israelite stories, that came to be known as the Septuagint Bible, was a distorted translation?
- What if the Israelite stories we all have been made to believe took place in Egypt simply did not?
- What if Egypt was fraudulently introduced in the Bible as the theater of the Israelite stories?
- What if the homeland of Judaism and the early Israelites is not Palestine?
- What if ancient Egypt never knew any so called Pharaohs?
- What if Abraham, Joseph and Moses never set foot in Egypt nor even dreamed about it?
Have you ever wondered why are the
Egyptian Pyramids and temples not mentioned in the Bible? Do you know
that Egypt is mentioned in the Bible around six hundred times? The
number is phenomenal and perplexing at the same time, for no one can
revisit Egypt that too many times and never refers to one of its ancient
icons; the Pyramids.
On the other hand do you have any idea
how many times Israel/Israelites were mentioned in the Egyptian records?
Get ready for this surprise; only once. Don’t jump to any hasty
conclusions; this is not our evidence that Egypt was not the land of the
Exodus; rather this is a prelude to our investigation (as detailed in
our book, “Egypt Knew no Pharaohs nor Israelites“)
We were spoon-fed the idea that the
Israelites were kept in bondage for almost 400 years (some say 260
years) in Egypt, and yet all of their stories are devoid of any trace of
Egyptian influence. Moreover, and to our amazement, slavery was
not a common practice in ancient Egypt in the first place. Unlike the
pervasive culture of slavery in the Israelite stories, Ancient Egypt
never had a public market for trading slaves.
Everything about ancient Egyptian
culture; its art, architecture, monuments, people, theology, mythology
and pantheon of gods is uniquely strong and influential even to this
very day. After such a long sojourn in the land of the Nile Valley, one
would have expected to find some trace of Egyptian cultural influence in
the Israelite history and narrative, but that was hardly the case.
Though the Israelites only spent around seventy years in the Babylonian
Captivity, still that short period was documented by both the Israelites
and the Babylonians and reference to it is also found in the Persian records.
On the other hand, the Hebrew Bible
claims the Israelites sojourned in Egypt for hundreds of years and yet
we fail to find any extra-biblical documentation or mention either of
the Israelite sojourn or of their exodus in the Egyptian records, or
non-Egyptian for that matter.
There wasn’t even any mention of the
Pyramids, one of the wonders of the ancient world, in the Israelite
stories. You can’t stay that long in Egypt without taking note of the
Pyramids. Most foreign historians and military leaders who came to Egypt
from late antiquity onwards like Alexander the Great, Strabo, Diodorus
Siculus, and of course Herodotus were keen to mention and document their memories and commentaries about the famous site.
“The eighth king, Chemmis of Memphis, ruled fifty years and constructed the largest of the three pyramids, which are numbered among the seven wonders of the world” Diodorus Siculus (90 – 30 BC), library of history.
But when it comes to the Israelites their
Hebrew Bible is totally silent about not only the Pyramids, but also
any feature of ancient Egyptian culture or architecture.
Seventy years of captivity in Babylon
have left its mark on the Hebrew culture, the Hebrew Talmud and the
Hebrew Bible. Themes from Sumerian and Babylonian mythology like that of
the flood, Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge can be traced in the Hebrew book. Even parallels could be drawn between the birth legend of King Sargon of Akkad and that of Moses.
The four-hundred-year sojourn in Egypt
should have left its mark on the Israelites and their culture, but that
is nowhere to be found because they have never been to Egypt. And no,
the argument that claims the Israelites refrained from being affected by
pagan beliefs and culture can’t be considered valid, for all sorts of
Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian (pagan) cultural influences are jammed
into their Torah.
The not so infrequent comparison between
King Akhenaten’s monotheism and that of the Israelites is also invalid
in essence for the Jewish cult is tribal, militaristic and lacked
(actually forbade) any genuine artistic manifestations while that of
Akhenaten was universal in nature (built on ancient Egyptian belief in a
supreme God) that was celebrated by works of revolutionary art and
architecture. Besides Akhenaten’s Aten was an inclusive deity that
embraced all his children and not just one specific tribe of the desert.
No matter how hard you dig into the
Israelite stories you will not find any Egyptian influence, not a speck
of impact, except maybe the mention of the word Pharaoh. And guess what;
Egypt never knew any Pharaohs either (how about that for a hard-hitting
revelation).
“Re-examine your old beliefs” to find out how they they have come to define you. Indeed we are limited, if not pre-conditioned, by our old beliefs and stories. As they once carved our past those same old stories keep on shaping how we view the present. Only the critical scrutiny of some of our old beliefs will decide if they will keep their (unwarranted) authority over us in the future.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/02/why-are-the-pyramids-not-mentioned-in-the-bible/
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