WHO REALLY WAS PHARAOH WHO DROWNED IN RED SEA?

by badboy 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  badboy

  PURSUING THE ISRAELITES.

  TUTHMOSIS III/IVN

  AMENHOTEP III/IV

  RAMESSES 1/II/III
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  IP_SEC

  lol
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  LongHairGal

  I always wanted to know the answer to this. Some have speculated that it was Ramses I and others said Merneptha. I am not an expert on Egyptology but have some interest.

  There is also a theory I read somewhere that there may have been two pharaohs at one time (one for lower and one for upper Egypt). ???

  LHG
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  the dreamer dreaming

  there is plenty of evidence to indicate that the first five books of moses were actually written

  around 800-700 bce and that moses and THAT pharoah were just mythical legends that likely never had roots in reality.

  you have things in Genesis like BEFORE there was a King in Israel... showing that it was written AFTER there were already kings in Israel [circa 1000bce] which is a good 5-700 years AFTER the supposed time of Moses...

  even the book of Jeremiah tells us that they first mysteriously FOUND the law of Moses after a temple cleaning....circa 600 bce.
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  PrimateDave

  Isn't it kind of funny that Moses, who supposedly wrote the book of Exodus, never said the name of the Pharaoh? I mean, really, Moses was raised in the royal family, right? Even though he was away for forty years, he should have known some of the people on his return.
  
  Unless, of course, Moses didn't write Exodus. After all, how many plot holes and inconsistencies does it take to realize that these twice baked tales were written by several authors? They couldn't even agree on when Aaron died. Or the name of Moses' father-in-law.
  
  I will go so far as to say that no Pharaoh ever died in the Red Sea. The whole story of the Exodus, if not a complete fabrication, is greatly exaggerated. No archaeological evidence exists for the Exodus, at least not on a scale involving a couple million people and their livestock in the time frame specified. We don't know what, if anything, actually happened. The stories that make up the Bible make poor history and very poor religion. Enjoy it as the product of human cultural evolution, nothing more.
  
  Dave
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  badboy

  I WONDER WHAT JW THEORY IS?
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  Leolaia

  They have no position.

  An elder from my congregation however believed strongly that it was Thutmose II (whose reign better fits Watchtower chronology than others).
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  greendawn

  To the extend that the exodus story is real the historians are simply not in agreement as to who the exodus Pharaoh was or when it occured and they give between them several names and dates.
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  badboy

  BTTT
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  moshe

  even the book of Jeremiah tells us that they first mysteriously FOUND the law of Moses after a temple cleaning....circa 600 bce.

  That account always seemed a little too convenient to me.