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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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where SUDDENLY, Israel finds itself in A SITUATION OF OPPRESSION and SLAVERY?
This transition in fact occurs at the end of Joseph's STORY, because Joseph sends for Jacob and all his family. And IN FACT [?], it's the Israelites who EXPANDED and GREW in number.
The Book of Exodus opens with the following finding: A new Pharaoh came to power who NO LONGER KNEW JOSEPH or what he had achieved. So, ALL OF A SUDDEN, the picture changes. And we find ourselves in a state of OPPRESSION. On the one hand, the Egyptians wanted to retain their workers, but at the same time, they were AFRAID. They tried all sorts of methods TO GET RID OF THEM, as is related in the Biblical text:
"But the more we oppress them, the more they are fruitful and multiply."
[Narrator] The Bible refers to the names of two cities that the Israelites APPARENTLY built: Pithom and Ramses.
Egyptian documents CONFIRM that a city by the name of Pi-Ramses was built in the Nile Delta in the 13th century B.C. under PHARAOH Ramses II.
From the 1920s onwards, archaeological missions began looking for the remains of that city,
located east of the delta in Qantir.
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