Bible Study with Fred: Proverbs 15:33; before honor is humility
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How can I contact you? I have a question about Genesis 47:11.
When Jacob and Joseph’s brethren went to the land of Rameses, I calculated based on the Bible timeline (1764 BC - 1747 BC) Genesis 47:28.
The Pharaoh Rameses existed in the 1200’s BC. There is a 500 years gap and it is impossible to have the Land of Rameses if they have not even existed according the history written in Britannica.
Moses is writing after the Exodus. Referring to Egypt as the land of Raamses would not be odd if that was one of the ways Egypt was referred to, especially as the Hebrew slaves built a city named Raamses. "Son of Ra" seems a very reasonable appellation for the time the Bible was written. It doesn't mean that Joseph would have referred to Egypt, Mizraim, as the land of Raamses. All Egyptian dating is relative and arguable. Raamses was probably not an unusual name or a reference.
Dating methods have different reliability and there are different chronological schools but when reading an ancient writer referring to a geographical entity consider that they may use names that are common when they are writing not necessarily during the events they are describing.
3 comments:
How can I contact you? I have a question about Genesis 47:11.
When Jacob and Joseph’s brethren went to the land of Rameses, I calculated based on the Bible timeline (1764 BC - 1747 BC) Genesis 47:28.
The Pharaoh Rameses existed in the 1200’s BC. There is a 500 years gap and it is impossible to have the Land of Rameses if they have not even existed according the history written in Britannica.
Moses is writing after the Exodus. Referring to Egypt as the land of Raamses would not be odd if that was one of the ways Egypt was referred to, especially as the Hebrew slaves built a city named Raamses. "Son of Ra" seems a very reasonable appellation for the time the Bible was written. It doesn't mean that Joseph would have referred to Egypt, Mizraim, as the land of Raamses. All Egyptian dating is relative and arguable. Raamses was probably not an unusual name or a reference.
Dating methods have different reliability and there are different chronological schools but when reading an ancient writer referring to a geographical entity consider that they may use names that are common when they are writing not necessarily during the events they are describing.
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