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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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It is this idea of a community of people that is rendered in the hieroglyph of the man and the woman --
the determinative with the plural, which is therefore Israel. IT IS THE ONLY REFERENCE TO ISRAEL IN THE WHOLE OF EGYPTIAN LITERATURE: historical, religious, or literary that we are aware of.
ONLY ONCE is Israel mentioned in all the Egyptian texts, whereas the Bible refers to Mizraim, or Egypt, about 700 times.
[Narrator] An actual reference then, albeit the only one we have.
We know the date on which the stele was erected: 1207 B.C. At that time, Israel was already established in Canaan. So the exodus could not have occurred before this date. So, to summarize: SEMITES were definitely to be found in Egypt. Pharaoh Ramesses II was the father of Merneptah.
And the 13th century seems to be a plausible time period.
IF WE LEAVE ASIDE ERRORS IN THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE,
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