Linguistics, ancient theology, and the reception history of the texts are also relevant. While we focus primarily on the scholarship of Biblical texts and their history, we also accept discussion of related extra-biblical writings such as the Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Nag Hammadi texts, among others. Faith-based comments, discussion of modern religion, and apologetics are prohibited. This subreddit is not for contemporary theological application. Who knows what to make of this, but it is nevertheless interesting.This is a forum for discussion of academic biblical studies including historical criticism, textual criticism, and the history of ancient Judaism, early Christianity and the ancient Near East. His majesty leapt into the so-called place of the whirlpool…He departed… He was no longer aliveĮXODUS 14:28 the waters returned, and covered… all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them They saw not one anotherĮL-ARISH His Majesty(Pharaoh) finds (them) on this place called Pi-KharotiĮXODUS 14:9 the Egyptians pursued them… and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-ha-h(k)irothĮL-ARISH at the place of the whirlpool the evil-doers prevailed not over his majesty. This possibly relates the time from the plagues to the drowning of the Pharaoh in the Red Sea.ĮL-ARISH The land was in great affliction… there was such a tempest that neither men nor gods could see the faces of their nextĮXODUS 10:22-23 there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. PAPYRUS 3:14 It is groaning throughout the land, mingled with lamentationsĮXODUS 12:30 there was not a house where there was not one dead… there was a great cry in Egypt.Īnother correspondence with an Egyptian monument is found on the monolith of el-Arish discovered in the 1860’s. PAPYRUS 2:13 He who places his brother in the ground is everywhere PAPYRUS 4:3/5:6ğorsooth, the children of princes are dashed against the wallsĮXODUS 12:29 the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh PAPYRUS 9:2-3ěehold, cattle are left to stray, and there is none to gather them togetherĮXODUS 9:19 he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.ĮXODUS 10:22 and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt Cattle moanĮXODUS 9:3 the hand of the Lord is upon the cattle… very grievous PAPYRUS 5:5Ěll animals, their hearts weep. To it belong wheat and barleyĮXODUS 10:15 there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the fields, through all the land of Egypt. PAPYRUS 10:3-6Ğgypt weeps… the entire palace is without its revenues. PAPYRUS 6:3ğorsooth, grain has perished on every side PAPYRUS 2:10ğorsooth, gates, columns and walls are consumed by fireĮXODUS 9:23-24 the fire ran along the ground… there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous PAPYRUS 4:14/6:1 Trees are destroyed / No fruit nor herbs are foundĮXODUS 9:25 the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree PAPYRUS 2:10 Men shrink from tasting… and thirst after waterĮXODUS 7:24 the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink for they could not drink of the water of the river. Blood is everywhere.ĮXODUS 7:21 there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.ĮXODUS 7:20 all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. PAPYRUS 2:5-6 Plague is throughout the land. The question is where two peoples recalling the same events? Whether people attribute the events to the divine hand or to natural catastrophies is unimportant. Some have asserted that this document, written by an Egyptian priest (discovered near the pyramids of Saqquara in the 1800's and accepted as a copy of an earlier text), relates the same events as the Biblical exodus.
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