Nadene Goldfoot
Ahmose I, king of ancient Egypt (reigned c. 1539–14 bce) and founder of the 18th dynasty who completed the expulsion of the Hyksos (Asiatic rulers of Egypt), invaded Palestine, and re-exerted Egypt's hegemony over northern Nubia, to the south.
Ancient Egypt witnessed a glorious period during the reign of Ahmose. This brave king had high regard for women and gave them positions of power. To implement his political and economic agendas, he established two capitals and used a simple army strategy to increase the wealth of the nation under his rule.
Ahmose I was a pharaoh and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power. That would have taken place in the 1700s BCE, almost 4,000 years ago with the date of starting in 3,721 BCE.
This is the pharaoh that might be thought to have been in power when 70 Israelites of Jacob's family went into Egypt from Canaan, leaving a drought-hit land for the plush Nile-fed land of Egypt, seeking relief. They found the land so fertile that they remained there until the Egyptians were afraid of them being they also had multiplied greatly, being shepherds with their sheep and being at peace.
Akhenaten was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Before the fifth year of his reign, he was known as Amenhotep IV meaning "Amun is satisfied", Hellenized as Amenophis IV).
As a pharaoh, Akhenaten is noted for abandoning Egypt's traditional polytheism and introducing Atenism, or worship centered around Aten. The views of Egyptologists differ as to whether Atenism should be considered as a form of absolute monotheism, or whether it was monolatry, syncretism, or henotheism. This culture shift away from traditional religion was not widely accepted. After his death, Akhenaten's monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs.
In deciding which pharaoh was the one Moses knew and dealt with, it more likely to me, would be Akhenaten,, as Moses, through his experiences, and this ruler, were quite similar-leading to strict monotheism. The pharaoh's name that spoke with Moses was not given, and people have been guessing as to who it might have been.
Who could say if it's possible that Moses could have influenced Akhenaten? Moses was raised as a prince in the royal house and had the same education most likely as this pharaoh. Notice that both Ahmose I and Akhetaton were of the 18th dynasty era. Monotheism was not popular with the Egyptian people and poor Akhetaton was hidden from public view, a shame on the empire.
1372 – 1350 BC: Akhetaton (Amarna) is constructed as the ephemeral capital of the pharaoh Akhenaten and dedicated to the sun god Aten. It is abandoned a few years after Akhenaten's death. ... 1325 BC: Pharaoh Tutankhamun dies and is buried in a richly furnished tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Amarna is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly established and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, and abandoned shortly after his death.
My favorite TV archaologist, Simcha Jacobovici, The Naked Archaologist, has gone for 1500 BCE as the beginning of the Exodus, while my records, going with dates found in The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, presents to me the dates of Moses' life (1391-1271 BCE), so that at age 80 the date would have been 1311 BCE. This pharaoh would have been 19 years younger than Moses, still on the throne when Moses asked for the freedom of his people. The unpopular pharaoh, believing in the Sun G-d, Aten only, monotheistic but unwilling to let go his free help. After all, slavery was the usual way of life if one was unlucky enough. Moses may have remembered that this pharaoh was in agreement with him about monotheism, but they didn't agree about slavery.
I'm not saying that G-d hadn't spoken to Moses, but that the conditions going for the Exodus were perfect. IT WAS TIME. Like a puzzle, the conditions were all in place for the Exodus.
I asked my computer who the pharaoh was in the Exodus story and it said Ramses II, to my surprise.
Resource:
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/who-was-the-pharaoh-of-the-exodus-395885
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/the-reign-of-ahmose-the-first-king-of-the-xviiith-dynasty/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ahmose-I
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