Moses - Man or Myth? - Deliverance From Egypt

 Moses leaves Midian and appears before Pharaoh with Aaron his brother, demanding that God's people be freed. When the stubborn monarch refuses, ten devastating plagues are unleased. 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? Some argue that sine Pharaoh is not named, the account must fiction. However, Hoffmeier, quoted earlier, notes that Egyptian scribes 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 Megiddon are not recorded." Hoffmeier suggests that Pharaoh is unnamed for "good theological reasons." For one thing, by leaving Pharaoh unnamed, the account draws attention to God, not Pharaoh. 

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