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Faithful Sayings Mahoney Ends His Film Aling, Charles F 6 ISSUE BULLETIN OF THE OLSEN Conclusion Works Cited PARK CHURCH OF CHRIST Faithful Sayings Mahoney ends his film Aling, Charles F. “The Biblical City of Ramses” Journal of the Evangelical 17.47 acknowledging that he is Theological Society 25.2 (July 1982) 129-137. Ben-Tor, Amnon and Maria Teresa Rubiato. “Excavating Hazor, Part Two: Did November 29, a filmmaker and not an the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City?” Biblical Archaeology Review 2015 expert in these fields, but 25.3 (May/June 1999): 22-29, 31-36, 38-39. he expresses his conviction Bietak, Manfred. Avaris and PiRamesse: Archaeological Exploration in the that this evidence deserves Eastern Nile Delta. Proceedings of the British Academy, 65 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981). Services consideration by the public. __________. Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos: recent excavations at Tell el- Rohl’s “new chronology” Sunday: 9:00 AM Dabʻa I (London: British Museum Press, 1996). 10:00 AM has its critics, and only Gardiner, Alan H. The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papy- time will tell if it with- rus in Leiden. (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1969). 11:00 AM stands the test of further Hayes, William C. A Papyrus of the Late Middle Kingdom in the Brooklyn Wednesday: 7:00 PM Museum. (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1955). analysis and scrutiny. I too Levin, Yigal. “Did Pharaoh Sheshonq Attack Jerusalem?” Biblical Archaeology Did the Exodus Really Happen? am no expert, but in the Review 38.4 (July/August 2012) 42-52, 66. Elders: By Kyle Pope face of a world quick to Schiestl, Robert. “The Statue of an Asiatic Man from Tell el-Dabca, Egypt” Pat Ledbetter dismiss biblical accounts, Egypt and Levant 16 (2006) 173-185. Jeff Nunn Tugend, Tom. “L.A. Rabbi Creates Furor by Questioning Exodus Story” Jweek- n the spring of 2001 David Wolpe, the “rabbi” of Sinai Temple, Christians should at least Kyle Pope ly.com May 4, 2001 [online] http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/15596/l- the largest conservative Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, made become familiar with argu- I a-rabbi-creates-furor-by-questioning-exodus-story/ Deacons: history by stating during a Passover sermon: ments credible scholars Veen, Peter van der, Christoffer Theis, and Manfred Görg. “Israel in Canaan Steve Dixon have made and evidence (Long) Before Pharaoh Merenptah? A Fresh Look at Berlin Statue Ped- …Virtually every modern archaeologist who has investigated the story of the Ryan Ferguson Exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the that potentially matches the estal Relief 21687.” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 2.4 (2010) 15-25. Arend Gressley Exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all (Tugend). very events recorded in the Wople, David. “Did the Exodus Really Happen?” Beliefnet.com [online] http:// Ben Hight 3 inspired text. www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Judaism/2004/12/Did-The-Exodus-Really-Hap- Jack Langley Students of the Bible and biblical archaeology are not surprised by _____________ pen.aspx?p=1#P0Lzb5HqQAzSUf6j.99 Blake McAlister such claims. Many scholars and archaeologist hold similar views, . Wood, B.G. “Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho?” Biblical Archaeology Review 3 and this has led countless souls to choose either to abandon faith or Patterns of Evidence: Exodus 16.2 (March/April 1990): 44–58. Brady McAlister may be viewed on NetFlix or Walker McAnear to refuse to consider biblical teaching at all. While Wolpe claimed, online: http://www.patternsofevi- Sam Nunn “it doesn’t matter” if it really happened or not (Wolpe), Christians dence.com/ Pharoah’s and Kings: j Lance Purcell must recognize that it matters a great deal. The Exodus was prom- A Biblical Quest is posted on ised to Abraham long before it took place (Gen. 15:13-14; Acts 7:6). YouTube: https://www.youtube. Rusty Scott It became the focal point of Israelite history and the point back to com/watch?v=9j0NP178bz0 Justin Smiley Trevor Yontz which all successive generations looked for their national identity. 4700 Andrews Ave. The Exodus prophetically foreshadowed Jesus’ own time in Egypt Amarillo TX 79106 Evangelist: when His family escaped from Herod (Hos. 11:1; Matt. 2:15). Jesus Faithful Sayings Issue 17.47 November 29, 2015 806-352-2809 Kyle Pope affirmed the reality of events crucial to the Exodus, including the www.olsenpark.com giving of the Law (John 7:19), manna (John 6:31-32), and Mosaic messianic prophecies concerning the Messiah (John 5:45). Jesus’ disciples recounted the Exodus as a historical fact (Acts 7:36; 13:17; Heb. 3:16; Jude 5) and even compared baptism to the crossing of 2 Faithful Sayings Issue 17.47 November 29, 2015 the Red Sea—proclaiming investigation to uncover the true nature of the evidence for the • We find the walls of Jericho falling down and burned the Bible tells us the Israel- Jesus as the “rock” that sus- Exodus. after the collapse, with one section of dwellings attached ites departed when they left tained the Israelites (1 Cor. At the beginning of the film Mahoney acknowledges his own to the wall left intact (Wood). This matches the biblical Egypt (Exod. 12:37). 10:1-4). Quite simply, if the belief in Jesus, but sets out to objectively consider the evidence account (Josh. 6:1-25). Evidence of a Sojourn in Exodus didn’t happen the related to this issue. In the first part of the two-hour film Ma- Evidence of a Departure from Egypt Egypt gospel itself is a myth! honey takes the viewer through the arguments and evidence of- The “new chronology” would move the time of the The “new chronology” Patterns of Evi- fered by the majority of scholars dismissing the historicity of the Exodus to a period of Egyptian history called the Second would move the beginning of dence: Exodus Exodus. Mahoney relates his own discouragement at this stage Intermediate Period. the Israelite sojourn in Egypt to In the face of this of his investigation in the face of such seemingly insurmountable • At some point during this period something created the period known as the Middle conflict there have been evidence. The last portion of the film, however, offers a collec- severe instability in Egypt allowing a race the Egyptian Kingdom. During this period many attempts to resolve tion of evidence that establishes a compelling theory which, (if historian Manetho called the Hykssos to take control we find some interesting things these issues, but some valid) forms patterns of evidence that not only demonstrate the without battle (Josephus, Against Apion 1.73). Some in connection with Avaris. recent work has proposed historicity of the Exodus but have the potential to radically alter have suggested this was the Israelites or the race of the • Very early in this period there an intriguing theory with the traditionally accepted chronology of much of ancient history. Pharaoh who did not know Joseph (Exod. 1:8). What if is evidence of what archae- which serious students of The “New Chronology” Theory instability caused by plague, death, and the destruction ologist call a “four-room” the Bible should become A major figure in this investigation is Egyptologist David of its army in the Red Sea left Egypt vulnerable after house that was typical of the familiar. In August of 2015 Rohl—a professed agnostic. In 1995 Rohl published a book and the Exodus? The Bible says they were still “destroyed” kind of house found among filmmaker Tim Mahoney a three-part documentary featured on the Discovery Channel en- forty years after the Exodus (Deut. 11:3). the Israelites (Bietak). The released a documentary titled Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest (New York: Crown • We have a papyrus housed in the Netherlands that Bible tells us that Pharaoh entitled Patterns of Evi- Publishers, 1995). In these works and in the years that have likely came from this period describing the Nile turned gave Jacob and his family dence: Exodus (Thinking followed Rohl has argued that anomalies in traditional Egyptian to blood, death everywhere, and the servants taking a place to dwell in Gosh- Man Films, 2014, Film). chronology have added more than three hundred years to the possessions of the treasures of the rich (Gardiner). This en—the area where Avaris is The film was narrated by timeline of history affecting how we date many events in the matches the biblical account (Exod. 7-12). located (Gen. 47:6, 27). Kevin Sorbo and features ancient world. According to Rohl, this has unnecessarily pushed • We have a papyrus that lists Hebrew names among lists • In this Semitic settlement figures as notable as Israeli back the dating of events that correlate precisely with the biblical of slaves in Egypt (Hayes). These names include femi- are the ruins of a large tomb Prime Minister Benjamin record. Mohoney interviews Rohl throughout his film about his nine forms of two of Joseph’s brothers: Ashera=Asher with a statue of a Semitic Netanyahu, Israeli Presi- (so-called) “new chronology” theory. (Gen. 30:13) and Sekera=Issachar (Gen. 30:18), ‘Aqo- man of some importance dent Shimon Peres, notable ba, the feminine form of Jacob, and even Shiphrah, the (Schiestl). The Bible says The first problem rests in an assumption. Exodus 1:11 Egyptologists, archaeolo- name of one of the Hebrew midwives (Exod. 1:15). that Pharaoh made Joseph records that before the Exodus the Israelites were compelled to gists, professors, and even • The storage city the Bible calls “Rameses” was also (a non-Egyptian) second to build the storage cities of “Pithom and Raamses” (Exod.
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