The Exodus Decoded With Pharaoh Ahmose I Discovered Along With Hyskos

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

Our Old Testament, which we Jews call the Torah which are the first 5 books of it, or the Tanakh, which includes what Christians call the Old Testament, tells of Abraham leaving his city of Ur on the Euphrates River and goes to Canaan and Egypt.                         

Now it seems reasonable to consider that Abram and Terah, his father, and Sarai, Abram's wife and others in his family could have been  part of the Hyskos people's migration.  They could have joined it.  

One theory of the Hyksos; some say they did not invade.  The Hyksos Invasion Ancient Egyptian history was extensive, divided into separate periods starting ca 3100 BCE until the Graeco-Roman Conquest 332-30 BCE. During those 3 thousand years, there was an extended period in which a Semitic people, the Hyksos, "invaded" and ruled during the 15th and 16th dynasties ca 1650-1550 BCE. Biblical literalists think that this may have been the period when Joseph became co-regent and the Hebrew people moved into Egypt prior to the Exodus. 

They are trying to juggle the difference in time of Christians and of Jews who do not agree.  We know of Moses (1391-1271BCE) but not earlier for sure.  Now the Exodus may have occurred in 1500 BCE.  

The Torah explains that the Egyptians considered the Ivrit of Abraham's people as invaders who had multiplied too quickly, causing the Egyptians to fear their numbers.  That's why they turned on them and made them slaves-starting the 400 year period of entering Egypt to when they left with Moses.  

Possible Entrance of Hyskos into Egypt- notice their mult-colored clothing; and the coat of Joseph with many colors..

 Hyskos is apparently Egyptian, meaning "rulers of the foreign lands," They were Semitic peoples who overran Egypt after the destruction of the Middle Kingdom. Abram, whose name changes later to Abraham because of events he experiences, lived in the well-developed city of Ur on the Euphrates River of the Chaldees. What our history tells us is that Abram had had enough of his father's business making idols that he didn't believe in, or their way of life there, and so he wanted his children to be raised in a better social life so they could believe in one G-d only, and not the pluralistic way of life that includes human sacrifice.  

                                 Ur in Iraq lies about half-way between Bagdad and the head of the Gulf, some 10 miles west of the present course of the Euphrates.  Out of water rise the mounds which were Ur, called by the Arabs after the highest of them all, "Tell el Mukayyar", the "Mound of Pitch." Sir Leonard Woolley

If they had anything to do with Ur, that was like New York City in that day; well developed, knowing, with people from there capable of monitoring large groups in Egypt.   

Simcha Jacobovitchi, the Naked Archaeologist on TV . I was so impressed with his video report that I had to follow up with my own research, and he's  on the right path.  I wonder if Simcha couldn't be left-handed;  he has all the symptoms of being such a creative thinker, quite different from other archaeologists.  

 Simcha Jacobovitchi figures that the 40 year long Exodus happened in about 1500 BCE, which he also connects the Hyskos on their migration.  I found that our Jewish history had Moses born in 1391BCE and dying at age 120 in 1271 BCE, which fits all the other events of our Jewish history so well.  Simcha has done a video explaining all his discovery that is a clincher.  

                      Pharaoh Ahmose: Egyptians hold in high esteem the two pharaohs who unified their country: the Old Kingdom pharaoh Narmer of around 3100 B.C., and Ahmose I (unknown—1525 B.C.), who reunited a divided Egypt around 1550 B.C. and ushered in the celebrated New Kingdom.  I just can't understand why it's taken so long to decide on Ahmose being the pharaoh with his connection to the Hyksos !  

When young Ahmose I ascended the throne, Egypt was in tremendous turmoil. Intruders of Asiatic origin known as the Hyksos, meaning “rulers of foreign lands,” had taken control of the Nile Delta. They had savagely murdered Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao, Ahmose’s father, and decimated the army. They demanded tribute from the rulers of Upper Egypt in Thebes and took their princesses as wives. The barbarism of the Hyksos was memorialized by Egyptian historian Manetho. “[They] burned our cities ruthlessly, razed to the ground the temples of our gods, and treated all the natives with a cruel hostility.” (Discover how three rebel queens in Egypt helped expel the Hyksos.)  This is why Abraham wanted to get out of Ur, possibly.  After all, the city was into human sacrifices.  Abraham must have figured that Egypt would have nicer people.                               

Resuming the war of liberation against the Hyksos early in his reign, Ahmose crushed the foreigners’ allies in Middle Egypt and, advancing down the Nile River, captured Memphis, the traditional capital of Egypt, near present-day Cairo. While his mother, Queen Ahhotep, acted as his representative in Thebes (partially occupied by modern Luxor), he undertook a waterborne operation against Avaris, the Hyksos capital, in the eastern delta, followed by a land siege. When a rebellion flared in Upper Egypt, he hastened upriver to quell the rising, while Ahhotep helped to contain it. Having put down the rising, he captured Avaris and then pursued the enemy to Sharuhen, [Sharuhen (Hebrew: שָׁרוּחֶן) was an ancient town in the Negev Desert or perhaps in Gaza].a Hyksos stronghold in Palestine, which was reduced after a three-year siege.              

     City of Avaris in 1550 BCE

It was his much younger brother, Ahmose I, however, who finally succeeded in capturing Avaris, razing it, and expelling the Hyksos rulers from Egypt altogether.  Avaris was the capital of Egypt under the Hyksos. The name in the Egyptian language of the 2nd millennium BC was probably pronounced *Ḥaʔat-Wūrat 'Great House' and denotes the capital of an administrative division of the land. Uploaded by Anatoli Grimalschi.

The profound insult of the foreign rule to the honour and integrity of Egypt could be corrected, and its recurrence prevented, only by extending Egypt's hegemony over the Asiatics to the north and east of Egypt. Ahmose I engaged in a retaliative three-year siege of Sharuhen, thereby launching an aggressive policy of pre-emptive warfare. The town fell soon after the siege, ending the power of the Hyksos.^193–4 His victories were maintained by his son, Amenhotep I, then continued by Amenhotep's successor Thutmose I, who extended Egyptian influence as far as the Mitanni kingdom in the north and Mesopotamia in the east, pushing the borders of the Egyptian empire farther than ever before. 

Sharuhen is mentioned in the bible in Joshua 19:6 in the description of the allotment of the Tribe of Simeon.

It could be that Abraham had heard of the earlier migrations of the Hyksos, and now he knew there was a route and a place to go to where his family could thrive.  

Our Torah never named the pharaoh involved in our history with Moses, but Simcha has found evidence of it being Ahmose, which figures nicely with the names.  

 

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus_Decoded

https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/arts/naked-archeologist-simcha-jacobovici-wins-docu-tv-award-at-cannes-329265

Book:  Ur "Of The Chaldees" by PRS Moorey about Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ur

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ahmose-I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharuhen#:~:text=Sharuhen%20(Hebrew%3A%20%D7%A9%D6%B8%D7%81%D7%A8%D7%95%D6%BC%D7%97%D6%B6%D7%9F)%20was,Desert%20or%20perhaps%20in%20Gaza.

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