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Egyptian Leader Found in Northern Israel.

This is ironic.  At a moment of great turmoil in Egypt, a tie to Israel may heave been found.
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This tie is via a people called the Hyksos.  These were semitic people who ruled “lower egypt” ,, the delta, from 1800 BC, during t to 1560 BCE when they were driven out by Ahmose I, the founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty..  Hyksos rulers included a Pharoah named Yaqub-Harand .

Despite the obvious similarity to the story of Joseph in the Torah, the story of the Exodus is currently unpopular amongst scholars because, supposedly, of the lack of evidence of the event in Egyptian writings.  In my opinion the scholars are sharing the antisemitism of writings of Manetho, alter time Egyptian priest who demeaned the semitic rules of Egypt, the Hysksos.
Two arguments bolster the scholar’s skepticism.  The first is the dates or the Hyksos expulsion from Egypt.  If one accepts the biblical chronology, the Hyksos defeat is about 2oo years too early for the story of Exodus.  This seems bizarre … why would scholars expect true history to be seen in the oral legends of the Torah?
The other anomaly is that Egyptian history seems to say nothing about where the Hyksos went after their defeat by the Pharaonic Egyptians.  The most likely answer has always seemed to me that the Hyksos, like other Egyptians who lost battles at home,  retreated to the land that later became Israel .. the “holy land.”  This might also explain why the books of judges and kings say very little about the Egyptian occupation of Israel even though we know from Egyptian and Hittite sources that Egypt often occupied what is now Israel and that it often fought with Egyptian rebels whose camps were in the highlands where the “Hebrews” of Jewish history arose.

New archaeological finds in Israel support my concept.   At a site in Tel Hazor National Park, north of the Sea of Galilee Hebrew University archaeologists, Prof. Amnon Ben-Tor and Dr. Sharon Zuckerman have found evidence of an ancient Egyptian leader in northern Israel.  They found a Sphinx!  This amazing object is not from the Hyhsosho did not build Pyramids or Sphinx’s
This Sphinx appears to be belong to one of the ancient pyramid-building pharaohs. The object appears to have brought over from Egypt, with a hieroglyphic inscription between its front legs. The inscription bears the name of the Egyptian king Mycerinus, who ruled in the third millennium BCE, more than 4,000 years ago.  The inscription includes the descriptor “Beloved by the divine manifestation… that gave him eternal life.” According to Prof. Ben-Tor and Dr. Zuckerman, this text indicates that the Sphinx probably originated in the ancient city of Heliopolis (the city of ‘On’ in the Bible), north of modern Cairo.  It is highly unlikely that the Sphinx was brought to Hazor during the time of Mycerinus, since there is no record of any relationship between Egypt and Israel in the third millennium BCE and Egypt had yet to become a great power, occupying the levant.

To add to the mystery, this  Sphinx was discovered in the destruction layer of Hazor that was destroyed during the 13th century BCE,. According to the archaeologists.  This is also too early for the usual estimates of the Exodus … but not all that much since the earliest firm dates we have are for David’s occupation of Jerusalem about 1000 BCE.    The archaeologists argue that  the statue was brought to Israel in the second millennium BCE during the dynasty of the kings known as the Hyksos, who originated in Canaan.

This theory is supported by documents discovered at Hazor and at sites in Egypt and Iraq attest that Hazor maintained cultural and trade relations with both Egypt and Babylon. Artistic artifacts, including those imported to Hazor from near and far, have been unearthed at the site. Hazor is currently one of Israel’s national parks.

Maybe the time has come for Egypt and Israel to patch up this 3500 year old mistake?

 

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Posted 09 Oct 2013 by theaveeditor in Jews, Misc.

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