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[[File:AmenemhatIV.JPG|thumb|right|[[Amenemhet IV]] is the most likely candidate for [[Moses]]. His father was not recorded in Egyptian records. He did co-reign with [[Amenemhet III]] for 9 yrs according to the Turnin king list. He suddenly disappeared before Amenemhet III died. [[Sobekneferu]], the princess who found him and raised him as her own, became Pharaoh after Amenemhet III died.]] | [[File:AmenemhatIV.JPG|thumb|right|[[Amenemhet IV]] is the most likely candidate for [[Moses]]. His father was not recorded in Egyptian records. He did co-reign with [[Amenemhet III]] for 9 yrs according to the Turnin king list. He suddenly disappeared before Amenemhet III died. [[Sobekneferu]], the princess who found him and raised him as her own, became Pharaoh after Amenemhet III died.]] | ||
Moses is the only Israelite in history who was in a position to become a Pharaoh of Egypt. Not even Joseph could lay claim to this although he came very close, becoming a vizier to Pharaoh [[Netjerikhet]] in the 3rd dynasty. Joseph, having saved Egypt from a seven year famine and brought up all the land of Egypt for the Pharaoh was, however, a very prominent person in Egyptian History to the extent that the Egyptians and the Greeks almost deified him (Imhotep). As time went by, Netjerikhet started to become known as the Pharaoh of Joseph (Djoser). Temples were built in his name and pilgrims would bring mummified animals to offer to his tomb in the hope of being healed over a 1000 years after his death. | Moses is the only Israelite in history who was in a position to become a Pharaoh of Egypt. Not even Joseph could lay claim to this although he came very close, becoming a vizier to Pharaoh [[Netjerikhet]] in the 3rd dynasty. Joseph, having saved Egypt from a seven year famine and having brought up all the land of Egypt for the Pharaoh was, however, a very prominent person in Egyptian History to the extent that the Egyptians and the Greeks almost deified him (Imhotep). As time went by, Netjerikhet started to become known as the Pharaoh of Joseph (Djoser). Temples were built in his name and pilgrims would bring mummified animals to offer to his tomb in the hope of being healed over a 1000 years after his death. | ||
Moses was an equally prominent figure in Egyptian History, not because he made it to the top job, but because of the impact that his disappearance had on the 12th dynasty and because of the impact that the Exodus had on Egypt. In the first half of their sojourn, the Israelites were well received and well treated by the Egyptians. As they flourished and grew in number, the Egyptians began to feel threatened. At the end of the Old Kingdom there was an uprising in Upper Egypt. Amenemhet I, the vizier of Mentuhotep IV of the 11th dynasty, based in Thebes, assassinated Mentuhotep IV and gradually took over the rest of the country. This was the beginning of Egypt's Middle Kingdom or the 12th dynasty as it was called by Manetho. The pharaohs of Egypt's Middle kingdom had a very different attitude towards the Israelites to the extend that the Israelites were enslaved and forced to make mud bricks for the public works of the 12th dynasty pharaohs. Eventually, the 12th dynasty pharaohs became so oppressive that they even practice genocide by killing the male infants of the Israelites. 65% of the graves in Tel ed Daba where the Israelites lived were for infants and many coffins containing babies were found in Kahun which was also an Israelite village. | Moses was an equally prominent figure in Egyptian History, not because he made it to the top job, but because of the impact that his disappearance had on the 12th dynasty and because of the impact that the Exodus had on Egypt. In the first half of their sojourn, the Israelites were well received and well treated by the Egyptians. As they flourished and grew in number, the Egyptians began to feel threatened. At the end of the Old Kingdom there was an uprising in Upper Egypt. Amenemhet I, the vizier of Mentuhotep IV of the 11th dynasty, based in Thebes, assassinated Mentuhotep IV and gradually took over the rest of the country. This was the beginning of Egypt's Middle Kingdom or the 12th dynasty as it was called by Manetho. The pharaohs of Egypt's Middle kingdom had a very different attitude towards the Israelites to the extend that the Israelites were enslaved and forced to make mud bricks for the public works of the 12th dynasty pharaohs. Eventually, the 12th dynasty pharaohs became so oppressive that they even practice genocide by killing the male infants of the Israelites. 65% of the graves in Tel ed Daba where the Israelites lived were for infants and many coffins containing babies were found in Kahun which was also an Israelite village. | ||
