If Pharaoh and his men drowned in the Red Sea chasing Moses when was his body discovered and preserved?

Answer 1

The plagues were described by ancient historians, including Herodotus and Diodorus. The Israelite Exodus is mentioned by Strabo, Berosus, Artapanus, Numenius, Justin, and Tacitus. Egypt was in turmoil for decades, as we may understand from the Ipuwer papyri (Professor John van Seters, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology no. 50). This (and further evidence for the Exodus in general) may be seen here: Did the Exodus happen

Evidence of the Exodus

And the wider picture. Archaeology in general:

Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible

And Joshua's conquest:

Evidence of the conquest of Jericho

Answer 2

Psalm 136:15

But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,

For His mercy endures forever;

This clearly reveals that the Pharaoh did not survive but drowned in the Red Sea.

Answer 3

A:According to The Bible, the pharaoh who pursued the Israelites was drowned in the Red Sea (Exodus 14:6...28: "...there remained not so much as one of them."). This event in the Book of Exodus supposedly took place just before 1400 BCE, which would place it in the reign of Thutmose III. However, the circumstances of Thutmose' death are known, and his mummy has been discovered. Moreover, the Amarna letter demonstrate that Egypt continued to exercise complete control over Palestine until well into the next century.

Because archaeological evidence has made the traditional date of the Exodus untenable, some liberal Christians have suggested that the Exodus really took place shortly before 1200 BCE, when Israelites are known to have begun to arrive in the Palestinian hinterland. This would then make Moses and Rameses II contempories. However, Ramesis could not have been the pharaoh either, since he also died peacefully in Egypt and was buried there.

We do not know a pharaoh who would fit the Book of Exodus and there has been no body discovered. Moreover, over ninety per cent of scholars are reported to believe that there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible.

Answer 4

The Egyptians left behind thousands of written records - not only monumental stories of royal doings, but the minutiae of everyday life, over a period of many centuries. During the late Bronze Age, the time attributed to the Hebrew Exodus, there is no mention, in any of the known records, of an entire army being lost, or of a huge number of slaves absconding, or any economic upheaval at all. During this entire period, life seemed to go on as normal in Egypt and its colonies, including the Palestine region. Archaeologists find no evidence of any exodus of a large group of slaves from Egypt, as described in the Bible.

Lester L. Grabbe says (Ancient Israel, page 85) that it is not just a question of the official ignoring of defeats of the pharaoh and his army, because there is no period in the second half of the second millennium BCE when Egypt was subject to a series of plagues, death of children, physical disruption of the country and the loss of huge numbers of its inhabitants. He says that many scholars now agree that there is little clear evidence that the biblical tradition is an early one, rather than being from the time of the monarchy or the Persian and Hellenistic periods.

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