![]() ![]() Biblical literalists use the well documented Year 4 of Solomon to add on 480 years to get back to 1446BC to claim the time frame of the Exodus only to continually be wrought with disappointment when no evidence is found during that time period to substantiate an Exodus of the Hebrews and Israelites 1 out of Egypt after their captivity. With high confidence the date of Solomon " s Year 4 is set at ca. Present-day historians have used the chronology given in I Kings 6, which relates that Solomon " s Temple began to be built in his 4 th year of reign when the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt AFTER " four hundred eighty years… " (*1*). The second scenario is preferred but requires detailed research to find such an Exodus event. No doubt that if there were a significant number of Hebrews and Israelites in Egypt and then there were none, only two outcomes could have occurred – genocide or mass Exodus. Prior to the 21 st century, neither biblical historian nor Egyptologist had been able to locate the time period of Biblical Joseph-the first Israelite in Egypt, the pharaoh who elevated Joseph to such high status and the exact date of the Exodus. One of the primary names that he was known by in Egypt was “YUYA”. Living as an Egyptian and being totally immersed in its culture, the Egyptians did not call Joseph by his Hebrew name but gave him Egyptian names. Putting Joseph in the place of the Egyptian figure Yuya during the reigns of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III now brings to light much of the enigmatic chronology, the reason for the sudden rise in monotheism during the Amarna Era, the origin of the enslavement of the Hebrew and Israelite peoples and finally their liberation and Exodus out of Egypt some 210 after Joseph’s entrance into Egypt and some 240 years before Solomon’s Temple building. ![]() However, neither biblical historian nor Egyptologist has been able to locate the time period and pharaoh who elevated Joseph to such high status. The biblical story of Jacob-Israel’s son Joseph coming into Egypt as a slave but ending up becoming the second most powerful ruler in Egypt next to pharaoh is one of the most intriguing biblical stories. ![]()
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