Scientific updating on Joseph ---It is important for us to keep
scientific while working with the Bible. ---The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt by
Oxford is a good series to keep to the data of these pharaohs in Joseph’s life.I. ---Amenemhet I
dates 1991-1962. ---Senuseret I
dates 1962-1928 ---Amenemhet II
dates 1914-1879 (He ruled 35 years following the Oxford Dictionary) ---Senuseret II
dates 1879-1871 Based on the Stela
Cairo JE 59485, the highest recorded year for this pharaoh is the 8th
year (see Göttinger Miszellen article by Thomas Schneider and Mark C. Stone in
1997). ---Senuseret III
dates 1871-1843? Do not know exactly the end. ---Amenemhet II
dates 1843?-1787 ---According to
the Encyclopedia listed above, it was Senuseret III who started to close the
borders to foreigners. He set up a series of fortresses all over the edge of
Egypt. ---He also demoted
the higher officials and restructured the powerbase. ---Joseph would
have been now close to retirement and thus, although he was still around and
well taken care of by the son of his friend, Joseph may not have had authority
any longer. ---Senuseret III
pruned the tree of power of foreigners. He strongly may not have had any
recollection of Joseph like his predecessors. He may have had a referential
knowledge of him and permit things for Asians, although he did not like it. ---Amenemhet III
who started to reign [according to biblical calculations of not knowing Joseph,
from 1848 BC] but the Encyclopedia gives him a 1843? start and finish in 1797
BC. ---So the
likelihood that Amenemhet III was the pharaoh who knew not Joseph is greater
than the likelihood that Senuseret III did not know him. ---With Amenemhet
III all control of the searoutes and trade-routes were controlled by Egypt and
the period of colonialism and oppression started that lasted 400 years kicking
off at 1848 BC. CORRIGENDA
It is not 400 years from Exodus to 1 Kings 6:1 but 480 years It is not 430
years from Sesostris II[death] to Exodus but 400 years. He died around
1843? according to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Egypt. The data of the Oxford series, includes both Sesostris III and his son Amenemhet III to be suffering and dealing with Xenophobia against Asians. ---Joseph died
in 1878 BC. ---Senuseret III,
great-grandson of the friend Pharaoh of Joseph (Senuseret I, the 14 year
old boy that made him Prime Minister), had vague recollections of Joseph. ---Scholars are
postulating that he ruled until 1850. ---Others are
wondering of 1843 BC as the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Egyptology indicated. ---Uncertain as
to the ending date is better. ---What is
certain is the biblical date of 1848 BC as the starting date of the
Oppression. ---Here is an
article in 2022 by a Yale graduate Phd that the Sinaitic Inscriptions of
workers in the mines indicate that Semites were working there with Egyptians
since Senuseret III. ---Sesostris III
or Senuseret III was setting the stage for the Oppression to start in 1848 BC. ---He may or may
not have known Joseph already when he became pharaoh in 1871 if Joseph died in
1878 BC. ---The article
deals also with following Pharaohs down into the Oppression period of 400 years
that the Bible is recording. Amenemhet III and Amenemhet IV. ---It is
coppermine workers and inscriptions that were analyzed by this scholar. ---Around
1916-1919 many scholars were intrigued by these Sinaitic Inscriptions and
of a Sphinx object that was found with the name of Senuseret III on it. It was
not clear but this article establishes that it is indeed Senuseret III.
Reasons are very convincing albeit that absolute certainty is reserved because
of vagueness of letters.. ---What we are
trying to do here, is to be scientific on the matter of the Umwelt
history of Joseph and correctly so. ---For me this
is a necessary article to link towards my own assessment so far to the
chronology of Joseph and the pharaohs involved in his life.
Source of 2022
investigation and evidence supporting See also the
article by A. H. Sayce, The Origin of the Semitic Alphabet. . http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00148178 the Cambridge
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