Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Egyptian History And The Old Testament

By Claudine Hodges


For many years, many scholars have been trying to disprove the reliability of the old testament which can be found in the Bible. However, if one would analyze the chronological order of events in Egyptian history, he would find out that there are some facts that would actually lead to the merging of egyptian history and the old testament. Here are some of the things to look at.

Now if one would look at the traditional set of events that happened in ancient Egypt, he would find that these facts were all written by different historians. Some of them to name were of course Manetho, Josephus, and Herodotus. However, by tracing back some of their works, one would find that most of these historians would actually have a lot of disagreements with each other when it comes to the actual set of events.

So in order to see how the Bible is related to the history of Egypt, it is important to first take note of Noah. Now had a grandson named Mizraim or Mestraim who was said to be the founding father of all the Egyptians. This is backed up by the claims of the historian Eusebius who stated that after the fall of Babel, Mestraim created Egypt and some of the tribes that came from Babel joined him in order to create the race.

Now one of the most important and crucial things to take note of would be the visit of Abraham. Now according to the Bible, Abraham visited the land of Egypt some time after he had made a covenant with God during the time when there was a plague in Canaan. Now during this time, the Pharaoh of Egypt was the mighty Khufu.

Now one of the points that can be brought up would be the pyramids that were created by the great Khufu. Although the pyramids of Khufu were indeed great, they were not perfect because the blocks were not perfectly squared. This was simply because the Egyptians had no knowledge of complete arithmetic and geometry.

Now the thing about Abraham is that he is a Chaldean which is a race that were very knowledgeable in arithmetic. Now it was during this time that the pyramids of Khufu had more symmetrical blocks. Now this is actually one of the valid points that Abraham taught Khufu arithmetic which makes the visit of Abraham valid.

Another very interesting account was that of Moses. If one would look at the 12th dynasty timeline, he would see that during that time, Amenemhet III was the pharaoh. He would also find that the Pharaoh had two daughters and one of the daughters fostered an adopted son which was to be the successor who was actually Moses.

So with all of these accounts, it is actually not advisable to brush off the Bible as a source of history. During that time, the dates may have been different which means that there could have been a mistake in making the timeline. So far the Bible has been quite accurate in stating accounts.




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