Evidence for the Israelite Sojourn in Egypt: Difference between revisions

[[Moses and Amenemhet IV|Moses-Amenemhet's]] disappearance at the age of 40 was bad news for the 12th dynasty when Egypt's wealth and power was at a peek because there was nobody to continue the 12th dynasty when [[Amenemhet III]] died other than his daughter [[Sobeknefru]].  Sobeknefru only reigned for 8 years and then she died.  Egypt became politically unstable and began to decline. When [[Moses and Amenemhet IV|Moses-Amenemhet IV]] returned to Egypt to confront the pharaoh ([[Neferhotep]]), inflicting the ten plagues and then leading the Israelites (numbering 2 million) out of Egypt, Egypt was crippled due to the loss of it's firstborn, the loss of it's army, chariots, crops and animals; not to mention it's SLAVES.  Egypt became easy pickings for foreign invaders.  It was not long after the Exodus that the [[Hykosos]] invaded Egypt and built a fort at Avaris (previously called Tel ed Daba) which was where the Israelites had lived.  From Avaris, the Hyksos occupied and controlled lower Egypt for the next 400 years until Sequenre and Kahmose in Thebes, Upper Egypet, (17th dynasty) mounted a rebellion to force the Hyksos to leave Egypt where they were to encounter Saul of Israel who all but wiped them out.  The 18th dynasty, or Egypts New Kingdom had begun.  Many of the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom seem to have been named after Moses perhaps indicating that the Egyptians had considerable respect for Moses.

Given the enormous impact Moses had on Egyptian History and the fact that he was in a position to become a pharaoh at the end of mud brick making empire in which his family were the major mud brick producers, it is very plausible and in deed, highly likely that Moses did manage to get to the top job, even if only as a junior co-regent.  Things may have been different if he was allowed to rule by himself but then [[Moses and Amenemhet IV|Moses-Amenemhet IV]] may not have achieved what God had intended for him.  God had allowed the Israelites to grow into a nation in Egypt and it was [[Moses|Moses']] job to lead the Israelites back to the promised land as God had promised he would to Abraham.