Jerusalem Time

QUESTION: Is IMHOTEP, the deified vizier of Pharoah Djoser (3rd Dynasty-ish), the same exact person called Joseph (who is described in the five books of Moses)? Are the ten plagues of the Hebrew Bible not described by a 3,000 year old Egyptian papyrus? Why did most archaeologists originally ignore the blatant factual evidence of the Exodus that is presented in Egyptian and Greek sources?

ANSWER: How can anyone find evidence for a Biblical Exodus, if they are falsely expecting to find it in the wrong time period (Ramesses)? The reason that most archaeologists claimed the Egyptian records did not match the Biblical account, is because the modern calendar method of dating & identifying "epochs" is off by almost a thousand years - in terms of how they place both Israeli and Egyptian events.

A simple re-dating of the archeological periods in the Land of Israel brings the entire scope of biblical history into synchronization with the ancient historical record. When seen in the 3-4th Egyptian dynasty periods, ancient Egyptian writings about Imhotep match the Biblical account.

This is also confirmed by carvings on the Pyramid walls - and the later writings of other Pharoahs, the Turin Royal Canon & even the Greek Historian Manetho. Others, like the Famine Stele, present information about a seven year famine and seven good years during that time. Known as the "first inventor of the art of building from hewn stone" (in addition to the titles of healer, patron of scribes, sage, Priest and magician), the similarities (historic and linguistic) between Imhotep and Yusef are too striking to be ignored. In addition, the plagues listed in the Hebrew Bible (Torah) are described in the 3,000 year old Ipuwer Papyrus in chillingly meticulous detail - and also match up (chronologically) to the earlier Imhotep (Yosef) identification. Check out "Riddle of the Exodus" by James Long for lists of more details that match up with the Biblical account in chilling details.

Rabbi Yosef Karo
(author of שולחן ערוך‎):
"Who is he whose heart conspires to approach forcing congregations who practice according to the RaMBaM of blessed memory, to go by any one of the early or latter-day Torah authorities?! ... Is it not a case of a fortiori, that regarding the School of Shammai—that the halakhah does not go according to them—they [the Talmudic Sages] said ‘if [one practices] like the School of Shammai [he may do so, but] according to their leniencies and their stringencies’: The RaMBaM, is the greatest of all the Torah authorities, and all the communities of the Land of Israel and the Arab-controlled lands and the West [North Africa] practice according to his word, and accepted him upon themselves as their Chief Rabbi. Whoever practices according to him with his leniencies and his stringencies, why coerce them to budge from him? And all the more so if also their fathers and forefathers practiced accordingly: for their children are not to turn right or left from the RaMBaM of blessed memory. And even if communities that practice according to the Rosh or other authorities like him became the majority, they cannot coerce the minority of congregations practicing according to the RaMBaM of blessed memory, to practice like they do. And there is no issue here concerning the prohibition against having two courts in the same city [‘lo tithgodedu’], since every congregation should practice according to its original custom…” (Translation: r. M.S. Bar Ron)

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אָמַר יְהוָה עִמְדוּ עַל-דְּרָכִים וּרְאוּ וְשַׁאֲלוּ לִנְתִבוֹת עוֹלָם, זֶה דֶרֶךְ הַטּוֹב וּלְכוּ-בָהּ, וּמִצְאוּ מַרְגּוֹעַ, לְנַפְשְׁכֶם

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אָמַר יְהוָה עִמְדוּ עַל-דְּרָכִים וּרְאוּ וְשַׁאֲלוּ לִנְתִבוֹת עוֹלָם, זֶה דֶרֶךְ הַטּוֹב וּלְכוּ-בָהּ, וּמִצְאוּ מַרְגּוֹעַ, לְנַפְשְׁכֶם

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