Moses - Man or Myth -Deliverance From Egypt

 Deliverance From Egypt

Moses leaves Midian and appears before Pharaoh, demanding that God's people be freed.  When the stubborn monarch refuses, ten devastating plagues are unleashed.  The tenth plague results in the death of the firstborn of Egypt, and a broken Pharaoh finally sets the Israelites free.  -EXODUS,  chapters 5-13. 

These events are well-known to most readers.  But are any of them historical.  However, Hoffmeier, quoted earlier, notes  that Egyptian scribes are often deliberately omitted the names of Pharaoh's enemies. He argues:  "Surely historians would not dismiss the historicity of Thutmose III's Megiddon campaign because the names of the kings of Kadesh and Megiddo are not recorded.  Hoffmeier suggests that Pharaoh is unnamed for "good theological reasons."  For one thing, by Pharaoh unnamed, the account draw attention to God, which is the way it meant to be, as it was about God  making a point here.  God's purpose came about the way he planned. 

Even so, critics balk at the notion of a large-scale exodus of Jews from Egypt.  Scholar Homer W. Smith argued that such a mass movement  "would certainly have resounded  loudly in Egyptian or Syrian history . . . It is more likely that the legend of the exodus is a garbled and fanciful account of the flight from Egypt to Palestine of a relatively few members."

The Exodus is not a fanciful  or garbled account  of the flight from Egypt. It was real. All that had happened in the Bible is the truth.  This Homer dude is an unrealistic unbeliever and is full of garble himself.

Next time: Moses - Man or Myth - Conclusion of Deliverance From Egypt

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