Egyptian Testament · Vol. 2 · 2000
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Related lecturesWhat Egyptian record remembers the darkness and the storm of the plagues? Tempest & Exodus is the second volume of the Egyptian Testament. It takes the Tempest Stele of Ahmose I, which records a storm and a darkness, and sets that inscription beside the biblical plague narrative. If the Hyksos were Israel, as the previous volume proposes, Ellis asks whether the sacred mountain of the Exodus was a peak in Sinai at all. His reading names Jacob as the Hyksos pharaoh Jacoba, and it treats Mount Sinai as an Israelite name for the Great Pyramid. That is his interpretation of the stele, not the usual Egyptological one. Readers who want the plague story tested against one inscription continue here.
What you'll explore
- Tempest Stele of Ahmose I as a plague chronicle
- Jacob as the Hyksos pharaoh Jacoba
- Mount Sinai as an Israelite name for the Great Pyramid
On Ancient Origins
- Elusive Mount Sinai, Hidden In Plain Site In Egypt — 12 March 2021. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
Explore the research behind this book
- The Hyksos and Avaris
- Josephus, Against Apion 1.73–92 — historical source, not a chapter of the book
Lecture theatre
Lectures from this book
Lecture 15aIsraelites were Egyptians, part 1
51:36. 11 July 2020. 36K views. YouTube.
Ellis’ case that the biblical Exodus and the Hyksos expulsion are one event, three centuries apart on the usual timeline, and that the Israelites were those pharaohs. He notes that theologians and historians resist the identification.
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Lecture 15bIsraelites were Egyptians, part 2
55:36. 23 August 2020. 23K views. YouTube.
The same identification continued: one Exodus, not two, and an Israelite people Ellis places in the Egyptian royal house.
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Talk 14Star shafts at Giza
25:02. 20 May 2022. 3.3K views. YouTube.
The internal shafts of the Great Pyramid as sight-lines, not ventilation.
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In this series
Egyptian Testament
Egyptian Testament
Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs
The Israelite pharaohs of Egypt
Egyptian Testament
Solomon, Pharaoh of Egypt
The United Monarchy in Egypt
Egyptian Testament
Eden in Egypt
Adam and Eve at Amarna
Egyptian Testament
Scota,Egyptian Queen of the Scots
An analysis of the Scotichronicon