History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

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Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Julius Lester
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Release Date: 2002-02-05

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In his introduction to this engrossing novel of ancient Egypt, Julius Lester says, "It is difficult not to see Charlton Heston when one thinks of Moses." But not in this book. Lester's Moses is a bungling teenager, scared and confused as he tries to find the courage to decide who he is and what he believes in. Raised as the pampered grandson of Pharaoh, he enjoys the attentions of three mother figures: Yocheved, his birth mother, who constantly implores him to return to his own people; Almah, his older sister, who has left her traditions to dance naked as a priestess of the goddess Hathor; and Batya, Pharoah's daughter, who saved him from death when he was a baby. But now his anger at his unresolved split identity has goaded him into a terrible act of violence--an act that will have a vast impact on history.

Julius Lester, a distinguished African-American writer best known for his Newbery Honor Book To Be a Slave, startled the literary world in 1981 by converting to Judaism. In Pharaoh's Daughter he follows the time-honored Jewish tradition of Midrash--a way of exploring a sacred text through the use of one's imagination. Armed with an impressive knowledge of the Hebrew language and the history of ancient Egypt, he jolts us out of our expectations and brings a fresh and richly detailed perspective to the Exodus. As Moses flees with his father's blessing--"You must go and come back and teach us all to be free"--we can only hope that Julius Lester plans to tell the rest of the story. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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I saved my brother from the soldiers,
but the princess says he is hers now.
Abba and Ima will never trust me again.

In ancient Egypt, there lives a girl named Almah who will do anything to ensure the safety of her baby brother, Mosis.

She will leave her enslaved family and assume the role of Egyptian princess. She will change her identity if it means winning health and freedom for her brother.

Mosis, however, does not feel completely free. His identity has been changed against his will, and he longs to find himself. And when he does, he will do anything in his power to see that justice is served.

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References to nudity in this book.......2007-08-26

As an Adult, I didn't like this book at all. It seemed too mature for the ages suggested of 12 and up. There were numerous references to nudity in this book and at the end of the book there was more nudity but there was no warning in the jacket cover regarding this. It was mentioned by the author after the story, not in prelude. At the end of this book, it does not say anything about her brother and her family. This book will hurt women and girls a lot. Out of all the books that I had read, this is the worse one that I have read. This book made me sick to my stomach after I read it. Do not waster your money on getting this book and do not waster your time reading it. It is not worth it at all. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone at all.

brea-lynn pharaoh's daughter.......2006-11-20

I like the book Pharaohs Daughter because it is about a young girl who is going through a tough time and then somthing life changing has happened to her. Part of the book was confusing because it switched to a different charecter half way through the book but then i got it after a while. i would reccomend this book to people because it is an educational book and it is a good read.

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.*Pharoahs Daughter*........2006-11-17

Pharaohs daughter was a good book. when I was reading this book I really couldn't stop reading it I really liked it I wanted it to go on forever. I like the part when Alamh meets the princess and wants her to live with her and be her younger sister. Also I like the part when mosis figures out what his real family is i think he made a good choice by going to Goshen . I think the author of this book is a realy good writer and has a good imagination. -CourtneyHowe

What a Great Book!!!!.......2006-11-02

I thought the Pharaoh's Daughter was a great book. It was entertaining and well written. I loved how there was two parts to the story, it made the book not get too boring. You should totally read this book!!!!!

Home School Book Review -- Ancient Egypt.......2006-07-11

The Bible does not name the sister of Moses who watched him while he hid in a basket on the Nile, but the Hebrew word used describes a woman of marriageable age. Could Moses have had another sister? Julius Lester uses the viewpoint of this imagined--but very possible--sister to tell the story of the Habiru (Hebrew) and Khemetian (Egyptian) peoples during the time of Mosis' (Moses') upbringing in the court of Ramesses II.

The author uses ancient Egyptian and Hebrew words and names whenever possible to remove images of The Ten Commandments and Prince of Egypt from readers' minds. He asks us to consider that the story we've been told was from the view-point of the Hebrews, embittered by years of slavery; he asks us to consider the Egyptians anew.

The author attempts to give an historically accurate view of the New Kingdom of Egypt. In order to keep the story as authentic as possible, he has Mosis speak in an unusual way, attempting to create his "heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue" description from the Old Testament.

Stories are even more subtle than non-fiction and evoke even more emotion and can therefore be even more persuasive, especially to young minds that have not moved into the final stages of development, so this book should only be read by children who have entered the third and final stage of mental development (as discussed in _The Well-Trained Mind_.)

To Christian parents, this is a Biblical story told from a non-Biblical perspective. The point-of-view for most of the book is Mosis' sister, Almah, who embraces the gods and goddesses of Egypt, even becoming a priestess of Hathor. There is nudity in religious circumstances and lust is discussed briefly. Many characters argue in favor of many gods and the strongest believer in Ya (the Biblical God) is portrayed in a negative light.

Despite all the possible drawbacks, this book shines fresh light on the struggles Moses and his family must have gone through in his early life. It is also a great discussion starter. Have your mature thirteen or fourteen year old child read this along with a study on ancient Egypt, then discuss family relationships, different viewpoints (is one always right and one always wrong), can a god meet a woman's needs (or does she need a goddess to understand her), etc.

The author includes an author's note and a glossary in the back of the book. Read the glossary BEFORE you read the book; save the author's note for afterwards. In the author's note, Lester explains his purpose, some of the efforts he went through to be accurate historically, and the textual reasons he made some of the decisions he made. Very informative.

Summary: Mosis' part in the dialog may make this book seem poorly developed or for a younger age group at first--until you realize that Mosis is supposed to speak poorly and it is intentional. Instead, this is a great story told in an engaging way from a refreshing viewpoint which I recommend, but only for mature thirteen year olds and older. A sort of _The Red Tent_ for teenagers, without all the sexuality. This book touched me and I became misty-eyed towards the end.

Green Plagues and Lamb: The Story of Moses and Pharaoh

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Solving the Exodus Mystery, Vol. 1: Discovery of the True Pharaohs of Joseph, Moses, and the Exodus

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Solving the Exodus Mystery, Vol. 1: Discovery of the True Pharaohs of Joseph, Moses, and the Exodus
Ted T. Stewart
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For centuries scholars have searched in vain to identify in Babylonian and Egyptian documents the true Kings and Pharaohs of Abraham, Joseph, Moses & the Exodus. The search, rather than increasing faith in Biblical history, has created skepticism and unbelief. Ted Stewart has researched the ancient documents of Babylon and Egypt, plus the astronomical and carbon-14 dates of their kings and Pharaohs. His research uncovered a total of 436 evidences and synchronisms that confirm Biblical history. These remarkable historical and scientific evidences identify the true Biblical Pharaohs of Joseph, Moses and the Exodus, all in the twelfth dynasty of Egypt. Furthermore, the ten plagues of Egypt and the exodus of the Israelite slaves are recorded in a late twelfth-dynasty document that also describes the drowning of the last male Pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty and his army "by pouring water." However, carbon-14 dating and new astronomical dating prove that the twelfth dynasty should be redated 300 years later in confirmation of the Bible dates. Dr. Thomas Langford, Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Texas Tech University says, "This book offers a remarkable tour through ancient Egyptian and Biblical history . . . and presents striking evidence for the Bible's accuracy." Dr. Truman Scott, Dean of Sunset International Bible Institute, evaluated this book as "a historical masterpiece that will surpass in importance the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls."

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Good in parts.......2007-10-05

Any serious reader looking for information to connect ancient history with the bible narrative from Abraham to the Exodus will find this book both very informative and very exasperating. Ted Stewart has some very good insights - evidence pegging Joseph, Moses and the Exodus to the 12th dynasty of Egypt looks at first sight very convincing. His extensive use of references from Breatsed's (1906) translations of Egyptian texts, the "Cambridge Ancient History" and a variety of bible guides and encycopedias leaves big questions about the academic rigour of his work.

He confidently supports Ron Wyatt's identification of the cities of the plain (Sodom etc.)on the evidence of sulphur balls (no recognisable archaeological findings) while dismissing work at Bab ed-Dhra in a way that shows he hasn't read up any of the recent work there, or at Tell el-Hammam. I could have done without 3 chapters of astronomical tables to show why Sothic dating is invalid (David Rohl did this so much better!), and I thought including testimonials to his own book in the middle of chapter 3 was very strange.

Ted is very free with criticising and dismissing authors he disagrees with, yet does not bring any recognisable experts on archaeology and egyptology to support his own views. And the way he manages to make one archaeological finding equal up to four "discoveries" helps to make his writing very repetitious. He doesn't really have "436 discoveries", more like 150-200, nearly all by other people. If you haven't read any of the other authors in this field you might end up thinking that they are all blinkered and stupid - instead of usually having very good reasons for seeing things the way they do.

With a good editor and some decent proof reading this could make a good book about half the length of the present one. Maybe shorter still if he leaves out all the things he hasn't researched nearly so well as Joseph and Moses. I'm not encouraged to buy Volume 2.

This book needs a reprint!.......2005-08-11

Ted Stewart's Solving the Exodus Mystery is outstanding other than the small pictures and no index. When Ted's second book comes out many will find he will reference Charles Forster's Sinai Photographed as this was the first book to show the Hebrew writing on the rocks in the Sinai and translates the writing, which in turn gives us the name of the Pharaoh of the Exodus (Amenemhet IV). Ted did an outstanding job putting together all the imformation and pointing out the connections to the dates of each of the Pharaohs' reigns.
Ted didn't have the backing to do a the art work of Roth's Pharaohs and Kings or Moller's The Exodus Case, but of the three Ted's is the most important and should be reprinted with more care to photographs and a better editor.

A Thorough and Convincing Discussion.......2005-05-17

After having read a number of books on the Exodus and other events related to Biblical history and archeology, I found this book the most scholarly and thorough analysis of them all, and was surprised that the author is not a professional archeologist.

Although some reviewers here have criticized his "lack of adequate editing" (no big publishing house at his disposal), the book is still very readable. Ted Stewart also had a choice between an easy chronological read and a convincing scholarly scientific dissertation. He wisely chose the latter, since he breaks important new ground and must convince the "experts" first. (If you want to compare this with a junk-science book, take a look at "The Exodus Case" by Lennart Moller, filled with contradictions and miraculous explanations to fill the gaps.)

Sometimes career scholars become so invested in a narrow academic groove that they can't see the forest for the trees. There have been so many inconsistencies between traditional archeological Egyptian dating and the dates of other Middle Eastern events, but the conventional assumption has long been that Egyptian chronology must be the correct one. However, in David Rohl's book "Pharaohs and Kings", this is convincingly contradicted by the solar eclipse mentioned in one of the 18th Dynasty Amarna letters to the sun-worshipping Pharaoh Akhenaton, shortly after his father Amenhotep III's death. That letter describes a solar eclipse near sunset in late spring at Ugarit in the eastern Mediterranean, considered an evil omen which was fulfilled soon thereafter by the burning of a palace there. This rare eclipse has been dated by computer astronomical calculations to 1012 BC (3 centuries later than the conventional Egyptian chronology), on May 9 at 6:09 PM!

Ted Stewart takes this proof plus a numbingly thorough review of the Sothic dates (the rising of the star Sirius as recorded and dated by Egyptian priests), showing much better astronomical correlation by computer with this revised chronology. He also shows many other correlating synchronisms to well-known Biblical events. One of these is the late 12th Dynasty Ipuwer Papyrus, which describes 8 of the 10 Biblical Plagues followed by the death of the Pharaoh "by pouring water". This Pharaoh's tomb is the only one of his Dynasty that does not exist in his family's burial compound (or any other known location), although his butler's tomb is there! The Nile is a placid stream with no "pouring water" in Egypt, although there are strong tides in the Red Sea. Moses' Exodus account and the Egyptian account of the Pharaoh don't mention each other's names, following the prevailing cultural concept then of not dignifying one's enemy leader by name.

By contrast, some people still call the great 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Rameses II (3 centuries later) "the Pharaoh of the Exodus". If so, why is his elderly mummy in the Cairo Museum instead of at the bottom of the Red Sea? Now there's an unscholarly statement!

It's time to take a whole new look at the increasingly discredited traditional Egyptian chronology assumptions (established by European scholars starting with Champollion, the "father of Egyptology", in 1822). Stewart's book convincingly shows why.

Excellent Synthesis of Egyptian and Biblical History.......2005-03-23

As other reviewers have noted below, this book does have it's weaknesses, in that it needs an editorial touch, and is repetitive in places (which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5).

But the scholarship is top-notch. This book provides incredible insights into the book of Genesis and early Egypt through its synthesis of the history of the times.

For example, Stewarts analysis of the rise of Sesostris I and the impact of Joseph (the son of Jacob) as his vizier on the power and economy of Egypt brings the period alive and explains many things. Equally impressive is Stewart's chapters on Amenemhet IV, the Pharoah of the Exodus, and what happened during the days of Moses.

I highly recommend this book.

Been Done, Earlier, and Better
.......2004-06-22

The first thing that overwhelmed me was Stewart's need for an editor. He continually uses boldface in an amateurish way, and like the Elaine Bennis character on "Seinfeld", uses exclamation points throughout. On pp 124 and 128 he uses the term "brainchild" (spelled two different ways) incorrectly -- the thinker isn't the brainchild, the idea is. On p 139 he refers to "mid-thirty's" which should be "mid-thirties". He refers to the upcoming volume 2 as "Solving the Exodus Problem" (p 345) and refers to "Table 21-I (p. 312)" while the table is on p 314. These may sound like nitpicking, but such things reduce an author's credibility, and could have been fixed by an editor.

Stewart draws far too much data and too many conclusions from the same few words of his sources (one of which is usually the Bible). He is repetitious. Most of his "discoveries" are reworded versions of his other "discoveries". Instead of stopping to state his "discovery" after his presentation of evidence (or, what he calls evidence), then moving to the next data and "discovery", he summarizes all of them at the end of the chapter. By that time this reader was dazed, and not in a good way. An editor could have cleaned up this problem as well.

Stewart spends at least two chapters analyzing errors in everyone's use of the Sothic Cycle, invalidating all Sothic dating "before and after", then in a tour de force non sequitur concludes that he has derived the correct Sothic dating for some 12th and 18th dynasty pharaohs. He claims that parallel dynasties are the secret to building a correct chronology, then faults others (Velikovsky, Courville, Rohl) based on the kludge of parallel dynasties built by still others. Stewart accepts without question that the 2nd intermediate period is lousy with parallel dynasties without appearing to realize that the synchronisms don't exist per se -- the chronology resulted from the fixed Sothic dates he spends two chapters debunking. In other words, Stewart saddles on conventional source data which seems to support his position while rejecting or ignoring any that doesn't.

Sothic dating was ripped to shreds decades ago by Velikovsky. Peter James also claims to have laid it low circa 1990. The recent discovery that a Babylonian eclipse record from the late centuries BC would not have been visible from Babylon if our wonderful retrocalculations were correct should give pause to anyone trying to use eclipse records (or risings of Sirius) to verify a ballparked date for anything ancient. Rohl's (and now Stewart's) use of an eclipse report to establish a 1012 BC date for the late 18th dynasty is invalid, which isn't surprising. Their chronology for the 18th dynasty is hundreds of years too early.

Here's an example of one piece of data which blows apart Stewart's entire corpus:

"According to the Book of Genesis Potiphar was 'an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard.' In the register of the private names to the Ancient Records of Egypt by James Breasted, we find the name Ptahwer. Ptahwer was at the service of the Pharaoh Amenemhet III of the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. According to an inscription of Ptahwer at Sarbut el-Khadem in Sinai dated in the forty-fifth year of Amenemhet III, his office was that of 'master of the double cabinet, chief of the treasury.' ...In the days of Amenemhet III there occurred in Egypt a famine enduring nine long years... Thus it seems that the Pharaoh in whose days was the seven years' famine was the successor of the Pharaoh in whose days began the rise of Joseph's career (if Yatu is Joseph). Potiphar, who lived under Amenemhet III, probably lived also under his successor. The inscription which deals with Ptahwer mentions a man whose name is transliterated by Breasted as Y-t-w. Among the monuments of Amenemhet III's reign is one of the Storekeeper who was honored together with two other persons." -- Immanuel Velikovsky, "Joseph and Potiphar"

Despite the fact that Stewart is obviously familiar with Breasted, he identifies Amenemhet I as the pharaoh during Joseph's entry into Egypt, and Sesostris I as the pharaoh who elevated Joseph to Vizier of Egypt. He claims that Amenemhet III is the pharaoh who tried to kill Moses. None of these are supported by the Egyptian documents that he cites. This suggests to this writer that Stewart decided that he had the right pharaoh and was heaven-bent-for-leather to cast aside everything that showed he is wrong. He might, for example, reject this obvious synchronism from Velikovsky by pointing out that the Bible said the famine lasted exactly seven years, not nine, then run off on a tangent about other famines mentioned in old records.

One of Stewart's strengths is his humility. In addition to frequent thanks to God and Jesus, he thanks an astronomer who helped him with the Sothic problem, thanks Velikovsky for identifying the Ipuwer papyrus as the ten plagues from the Egyptian point of view, and acknowledges a number of other scholars. On the other hand, he refers to Lynn Rose as an "historian not a scientist" which is probably unintentionally derisive.

It's unfortunate I've run out of space, because the book isn't terrible, and there are ideas with which this writer agrees. This book really could use an index, however.

Readers of Rohl's "Test of Time" a.k.a. "Pharaohs and Kings" or Peter James et al's "Centuries of Darkness" should enjoy this book. It is best read after one has read Velikovsky, and provided one keeps in mind that Stewart doesn't have a very good grasp of what's gone before, either in ancient Egypt or in the past couple centuries of the study of history.

Moses and Pharaoh: Dominion Religion Versus Power Religion

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Personal Responsibility vs. Escapism

Moses and Pharaoh: Dominion Religion Versus Power Religion
Gary North
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This is Part Two of Gary North's commentary on Exodus. It is a discussion of the Ten Commandments from the point of view of economic theory. Gary's discussion of the sabbath in this book supersedes everything he has written in the past, and nobody who wants to deal with the sabbath issue can afford to ignore the questions he raises in this book. So far, there has been no detailed response from strict sabbatarians, although the book was published in 1986.

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Personal Responsibility vs. Escapism.......2000-03-28

Gary North demonstrates from the book of Exodus that true religion, which he calls dominion religion is in a battle with humanistic power religion and its acomplice - escape religion. Discussed in terms of theology and politics (which do mix), modern applications become very apparent. Many in the modern church don't want to take responsibility, under God, for today's political messes. As if something is off-limits for God. Moses and Pharaoh demonstrate what the christian's responsibility is.

God, Pharaoh, and Moses: Explaining the Lord's Actions in the Exodus Plagues Narrative (Paternoster Biblical Monographs)

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God, Pharaoh, and Moses: Explaining the Lord's Actions in the Exodus Plagues Narrative (Paternoster Biblical Monographs)
William A. Ford
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The heretic pharaoh - The Life of Akhenaten, the Great Egyptian Mystic who Brought Monotheism to his Empire in the Time of Moses

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Joy Collier
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The Last Straw in Egypt: A Rhyming Play about Moses & Pharaoh

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The Last Straw in Egypt: A Rhyming Play about Moses & Pharaoh
Lynda Pujado
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