James Hoffmeier, The Exodus: Recent Archaeological and Geological Work in North Sinai 05/21/2011

Egypt in that time was an empire, the sinai desert was under their control with military garrisons there. How could these Israelites avoid fighting these garrisons?

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Watch patterns of evidence and then you can see it happened but not with Rameses

First Kings chapter 6 tells us that Ramses was not the Pharaoh of the Exodus.

Trying to make the narrative fit the archeology. One minute mention of israel demonstrates it's stature as a nation. Most people believe the movies they have seen. This person mentions many movies.

God had Moses cross Nueva Beach then they went on to Saudi Arabia there is stuff that the coral has landed on each side and clear across to Saudi Arabia just like Ron Wyatt said

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If this event really happened in Egypt, the zionist troops,who excavated the Sinsi desert for years under the leadership of Moshi Dayyan, the artifacts thief, would find relics of this vast exodus of 600000 combatants, etc...but they found nothing but some islamic and roman antiques.

2:35 They're called anachronisms: not in the correct time. (Keeping with the theme of Blazing Saddles: Klan robes didn't exist in the Old West, and they sure didn't have smiley faces on them.)

This is not compelling evidence of the Exodus. But it does make it clear that some are still approaching archeology with a spade in one hand and the Bible in the other.

The Oxford Bible map 28:30 is missing the third road out of Egypt across the Sinai from Suez to Ezion-Geber. Yet it has a red line (I suppose it is a road) from Serabit el-Khadim to Jebel Musa and from there to Ezion-Geber. Are those Bedouin goat trails? Because it has been stated that at the time the Sinai was Egyptian no-man's land so they would not build a road from Jebel Musa along the east coast of the Sinai. It may have to wait for the Romans to build proper roads. The problem with the Israelites using goat trails is they used a few slow cumbersome ox-carts. This would of reduced the travel speed of the group along wadi goat trails to a crawl.

He is right about some things. But he's definitely wrong about the crossing path.

That isn't Biblical Egypt. Long after the Biblical events, the name was brought over by Alexander the Great. Yes, he was an Israelite. There after, more names were relocated. Remember that Asia was the Biblical place of exile. Furthermore, the stories traveled along the travel routes. Noah planted his vineyard in Italy.

(07 September 2023) At 54:01 minutes of this video Professor Hoffmeier claims Tel el Maskhuta is Succoth of the Exodus, based on name similarity, an Exodus which he dates as circa 1260 BC and the 13th Century BC. The issue? Professor Hoffmeier has apparently turned a blind eye (?) on excavations in the 1970s at Tell el Maskhutah which found no 13th century BC pottery debris. What was found was 16th century BC Hyksos pottery debris, the Hyksos being expelled from Egypt circa 1530 BC by Pharaoh Ahmose I. Then, for a period of 1,000 years, Tel el Maskhutah was apparently abandoned. Pottery debris reappears again circa 610 BC, in the 7th century BC, with Pharaoh Necho II building a canal from the Nile to the Gulf of Suez via Wadi Et-Tumilat. Professor Hoffmeier claims the presence of statuary from the Time of Rameses II at Tel el Maskhutah ought to date the site to his 13th century BC Exodus. As an archaeologist, he should know better, that it is the presence of pottery debris that determines when a site was occupied, not the presence of statutes. The lack of Ramesside pottery debris at San el Hagar eventually caused archaeologists to abandon it as being Pi-Ramesses. They had been mislead by the presence of Ramesses II statuary that had apparently been removed from Qantir (Pi-Ramesses) to adorn San el Hagar. At Qantir was found the missing Ramesside pottery debris and remains of some of the Rameses II statues that had been hauled off to adorn San el Hagar. So, Hoffmeier's claim that Tel el Maskhutah is a 13th century BC site, is questionable for many scholars. Tell el Maskhutah is either 16th century BC Hyksos or its 7th century BC Pharaoh Necho II. IT IS NOT Hoffmeier's Succoth of his 13th century BC Exodus! If it is Succoth, then this would suggest the Exodus is either recalling the 1530 BC Hyksos Expulsion, or that Moses' Exodus is a 7th century BC event, not a 13th century BC event.

At 3:30-35 of this video Professor Hoffmeier asks "Are there any Cadillacs in the Bible, where they do not belong?" Put another way, Hoffmeier is asking "Are there any anachronisms in the Exodus account where they do not belong?" The answer is yes, contrary to Hoffmeier's claims. The anachronisms: The Bible has Israel leaving Egypt at a time when Philistines inhabit the land of Canaan. God declares Israel will flee back to Egypt rather than face the Philistines in war, if she uses a route called the way to the land of the Philistines. So, God has Israel take a detour to get to Canaan, called the way to the Red Sea (Hebrew: Yam Suph). The issue? As an Egyptologist, Hoffmeier is aware that the Philistines arrived in Canaan circa 1175 BC in the reign of Ramesses III as the Pelest, a sub-group of the Sea Peoples. Therefore Hoffmeier's claim the Exodus was in the reign of Rameses II, circa 1260 BC, is without merit because of this anachronism. The foundation stone for the Exodus to Mt. Sinai and the receiving of the Law, was Israel's fear of Philistines, who were not present in Canaan to opposes Israel's Exodus of 1260 BC. Another anachronism: Kadesh-barnea, identified by some with Ain Qadeis, is no earlier than the 10th century BC, it is not of the 13th century BC as claimed by Hoffmeier. Yet another anachronism, Moses writes a letter to the king of Edom asking permission to cross his land to get to Canaan. Edom's capital was Bozrah. When excavated it was no earlier than the late 8th century BC. So we have three anachronisms or "Cadillacs" in the Exodus account that are "out of place" for Hoffmeier's 1260 BC 13th century BC Exodus.

The scripture says the Children of Israel camped at Pi-Hahiroth He spends a lot of time with migdol which is potentially a number of places but not Pi-Hahiroth Why? How does he explain that after the parting of the Red Sea, Moses is met by his father in law Jethro who is a priest of Median? Median is a well known region on the Western coast of the Arabian peninsula near present day Aqaba. So how do you part a lake in the western Sinai and a few days later you are in Median? Where is Pi Hahiroth? Pi Hahiroth is on the eastern coast of the Sinai opposite Median near Aqaba Just another pseudo expert trying to diminish the power of the LORD None of this presentation acknowledges the true supernatural power of God If the parting was a lagoon the Egyptian charioteers could have gone around the lake or lagoon and attacked the Children of Israel The only explanation is that there was no way around the parting and the Egyptians had to go into its midst that points to a crossing of one arm of the Red Sea

Tut was the first born.

Spoiler: it probably never happened, and definitely not as described in scripture.