Which Pharaoh enslaved the jews

Answer 1

Answer 1

"According to the Jews they were enslaved by the Egyptians. who were not black."

Answer 2

Answer 1 is not accurate, there is no archeological record of the Hebrews in Egypt, the Egyptians had no record of the Hebrews and within the pages of the Old Testament cannot give the name of the Pharaoh who enslaved them. The Ancient Egyptians were African people of African descent and to say otherwise defies the science and the history of the situation.

Answer 3

Answer 2 is wrong. In the Brooklyn Museum there is a papyrus scroll (numbered 35:1446) dated to the reign of Sobekhotep III (the pharaoh one generation prior to Moses). This document decrees the transfer of 95 slaves by name; half of which are Semitic. It lists the names both in the original Semitic language as well as the Egyptian names assigned to each. Seeing as more than half of the list are Israelite one can infer that a large group of Semites resided in the Egyptian Delta of that time.

In the past, archeologist have been searching in the strata of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Various recent recalculations have revealed that the timeline equates more with the Twelfth and Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt. More and more artifacts have begun to emerge that date the Israelites in Egypt since this correction.

The Pharaoh of the Exodus was Dudimose. You can find writings by Manetho (the Egyptian historian who wrote an account on the collapse of Egypt during the reign of Dudimose). Some of his accounts are directly relevant to biblical accounts. You should also read about the Ipuwer papyri.

Answer 4

There are two parts to this question.

The first is whether Jews were enslaved by people in Egypt at some time in history (probably the Biblical Period). The answer to this is subject to historical conjecture, but the overwhelming majority of Israeli scholarship (which would have a strong interest in proving the Biblical account) has come to the conclusion that the events of the Exodus did not actually happen and Jews were never slaves in Egypt. Of course, religious individuals may argue with this and that is entirely their prerogative. They may even be right since scholarship has not ruled it impossible.

The second is that assuming that Jews were enslaved in Egypt, were Blacks the slave-makers or the slave-owners. For this there is little evidence. Blacks (like Kushites, etc.) were not a large part of Egyptian society until after the Kushites conquered Egypt. This would not have occurred before the Jewish Enslavement and therefore the overwhelming majority of Egyptian slave-makers, slave-traders, and slave-owners would have been "olive-skinned" Egyptians.

Answer 5

Jewish tradition is that the Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians and that the Exodus took place as described in The Bible. A large part of Judaism is based upon this part of Jewish history; and we possess the names, dates and details of the events and people. Since it has been estimated that less than one percent of the available material in archaeological sites in Israel has been excavated, not to mention those in the rest of the ancient Near East, lack of outside evidence is not to be construed as disproof. This was borne out recently, when an inscription naming the House of David was found, after his existence had long been denied by scholars.

In response to the original question, Jewish tradition is that the Egyptians were a dark-skinned people, though less so than the descendants of Put and Cush.

Answer 2

Answer 1

Ramses II was the one to order the killing of the firstborn, when Moses was a babe. According to the Torah the Israelites were in captivity for 400 years. If you go back 400 years from the reign of Ramses II the Pharaoh of that time was Sekhemre Wadjkhaw Sobekemsaf I. However looking into this I found some controversial opinions on the exact amount of years that the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt so it's hard to tell which Pharaoh originally enslaved them.

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Answer 2

The Bible does not name any of the three Pharaohs that feature in its narrative (the one that welcomes Joseph, his successor that enslaves the Hebrews, and the one that Moses argues with to free the Israelites). As a result, figuring out which Egyptian Pharaohs from the archaeological record match those three from the Biblical record is more often guesswork than exact science.

Answer 3

Answer 1

The torah does not tell us, but the pharaoh that let them free was Ramses II.

Answer 2

The Bible does explicitly mention Ramses as a Pharaoh and in fact only uses the name Ramses to connote a city in Egypt where enslaved Hebrews were required to work. The name of the Pharaoh is never mentioned at all in the Bible. However, the Exodus story has generally been attributed to Ramses II because of the time-period of his reign.

Answer 4

According to the Bible, Pharaoh enslaved thousands of Jews.

Answer 5

The Torah doesn't actually mention the Pharaoh by name.