Moses

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Pharaoh
There
is some difference of opinion as to which Pharaoh it was with whom Moses
dealt with. But whichever
it was, his mummified body has been found, so everyone
can see the face of
the Pharaoh whom Moses defied. This brings a touch of reality
to the story of Moses.
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Queen
Hatshepsut
The
Pharaoh's daughter, who raised Moses, is quite commonly thought to have
been the famous Queen
Hatshepsut, who was one of Egypt's greatest rulers. Her
statue and the ruins
of many of her might works have been found, the building of some
of which Moses himself
may have superintended.
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Making
Bricks Without Straw
In
1883 Naville, and in 1908 Kyle, found, at Pithom, the lowest courses of
brick filled
with good chopped straw,
the middle coarse with less straw, and the upper course
with no straw what
so ever. This is an amazing confirmation of Exodus 5:7-19.
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Death
of Pharaoh's First Born Son
Whichever
the Pharaoh, Amenhotep II or Merneptah, one or the other of which must
have been the Pharaoh
of the Exodus, inscriptions have been found that neither was
succeeded by his First-Born
son, which seems like evidence that something must
have happened to the
first-born.
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Joshua, Rahab's House
On The Wall, and The Fall of Jericho, Destruction of Ai and Bethel, Lachish,
Debir, and Hazor
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Joshua
Joshua's
name appears in an Amarna tablet written from Palestine to Pharaoh.
Referring to the rout
of the King of Pella, it says, "Ask Benjamin. Ask Tadua. Ask
Joshua."
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Rahab's
House On The Hill
Dr.
Garstang found in Jericho the ruins of double walls, 15 feet apart, linked
together
by houses built across
the top, showing that there were houses built "on the wall".
(Joshua 2:15)
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Fall
Of Jericho
Dr.
Garstang found evidence that Jericho was destroyed about 1400 B.C.,
Joshua's
date; and that the
wall had fallen flat, outward, down the hillside. Joshua "burnt the
city
with fire" (Joshua
6:24). Dr. Garstang found the layer of ashes left by Joshua's fire.
Israel was commanded
to "keep themselves from the devoted thing " (Joshua 6:18).
Garstang found underneath
the layer of ashes an abundance of foodstuffs, wheat,
barley, dates and such,
turned to charcoal, evidence that the conquerors di refrain
from appropriating
the food.
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Ai
and Bethel
Drs.
Albright and Garstang found in the Ai and Bethel mounds, evidences that
they
had been destroyed
by fire at a time coinciding with Joshua's invasion.
(Joshua 8:1-29)
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Lachish
In
1934, the Wellcome Archaeological Expedition found a great layer of ashes
left by a
fire of Joshua's time.
(Joshua 10:32).
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Debir
An
expedition of Xenia Seminary and the American School at Jerusalem found
a
deep layer of ashes
and charcoal in Debir, with evidence that the fire was of Joshua's
time. (Joshua 10:39).
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Hazor
In
Hazor, Dr. Garstang found the ashes of this fire, with pottery evidences
that
it
occurred in Joshua's
time. Also: an Amarna tablet, written to Pharaoh about
1380 B.C.,
from north Palestine, says, "Let my lord recall what Hazor and its king
have already had to
endure". (Joshua 11:10,11)
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