The Exodus Evidence In Pictures: The Bible's Exodus. The Hunt for Ancient Israel in Egypt, The Red Sea, The Exodus Route and Mount Sinai
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Experience a photographic search for the Bible's exodus with 50+ colour photos or images. Join two authors and television broadcasters on their four year quest to investigate the mystery of the Hebrew exodus out of Egypt.
What was the Red Sea, where was the exodus route and can Mount Sinai be found today? These are the questions that must be answered in this exciting photographic expedition in Egypt.
Witness in full colour pictures, scenes of Semitic people with multi-coloured coats entering ancient Egypt, find Semitic settlements in the Bible's land of Goshen and see photos of ancient slaves making bricks.
Hunt with our explorers as they search for the Red Sea, trace the possible exodus routes and watch as they examine the first reference to ancient Israel found outside of the Bible!
Paul Backholer
Paul Backholer is a broadcaster, author and the founder of ByFaith Media (ByFaith.org). He is the director of ByFaith TV and the author of many Christian books.Paul was born in the 1970s and after being called to study at Bible College in the 1990s, he later served as staff. Since then his Christian mission outreaches have taken him to over forty nations - from the slums of South America, from Cairo to the Cape, across the Trans Siberian Railway, into the Pacific and through the jungles of South East Asia.Paul has preached in many nations and his TV programmes have aired on more than fifteen Christian networks around the world. Having studied theology, Paul is committed to the integrity of Scripture and faithfulness to it.Paul's life was transformed when he had an encounter with the Holy Spirit as a teenager and this experience with God set him on fire and led to him committing his life to serve the Lord Jesus Christ.Paul's books focus on a variety of subjects, including walking closely with God, knowing the Holy Spirit, prophetic revelations grounded in Scripture, biblical archaeology and Christian history.http://www.byfaith.orghttps://twitter.com/byfaithmediahttps://instagram.com/byfaithmediahttps://www.facebook.com/ByfaithMediahttps://www.youtube.com/ByFaithmedia
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The Exodus Evidence In Pictures - Paul Backholer
The Exodus Evidence In Pictures by Paul Backholer. The Bible’s Exodus. The Hunt for Ancient Israel in Egypt, The Red Sea, The Exodus Route and Mount Sinai.
What Archaeological Data Can Be Found to Validate the Biblical Account of Joseph, Moses and the Hebrew Exodus from Ancient Egypt?
The Exodus Evidence In Pictures - The Bible’s Exodus: The Hunt for Ancient Israel in Egypt, the Red Sea, the Exodus Route and Mount Sinai.
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All photographs Copyright © Mathew Backholer 2013, 2016. All illustrations Copyright © Paul Backholer 2013, 2016.
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Chapter One
The Search for the Exodus
‘For now we see through a glass, darkly’ 1 Corinthians 3:12.
The Hebrew Bible is special amongst all ancient literature. When one reads the accounts of other civilisations, for example ancient Egypt, it’s derisory to hear the crude propaganda of Ramesses II as ‘His majesty’ rode victoriously into battle. Only later do we find in the library of the Hittites that this great victory was actually a messy defeat. For Egyptologists, the pyramids of Giza represent one of the colossal achievements of human civilisation. Yet how often do we consider the immense distress of the people who suffered profoundly for the glory and afterlife of a pharaoh? Archaeologists have manoeuvred to inform us that these labourers were not slaves, but well-cared for workers. However, would you like to be taken from your home and told to shift immense stones in three month shifts every year, to build a monument to the glory of your national leader?
The Hebrew Bible is incomparable from all other national records of that age. In the Bible the people of Israel are the principal rebels! The heroes are not the kings or leaders, but the suffering prophets. The Bible is unique because it honestly chronicles defeats, disasters and scandals. The leaders of ancient Israel are seen for what they were - adulterers, murderers, rebels and hard-hearted apostates.
The account of ancient Israel’s exodus out of Egypt is unequalled in its humanity. The early kings of England falsified records to claim they descended from the royal lineage of King David of Israel; whilst the ancient Israelites passed on a record which declared they were the offspring of slaves! The greatest victory of ancient Israel was the exodus out of Egypt, but the entire story is marred by complaining, idol worship, lack of water, revolts and struggles for leadership which led to a failed coup d’état. At the pinnacle of the story at Mount Sinai, a civil war breaks out. This is hardly a finely composed work of national pride and achievement, in propaganda form.
How very different are the records of ancient Egypt. We often forget the pharaohs had an absolute stranglehold on the recording of history and propaganda was their primary pursuit. We often strip the pharaohs of their humanity and forget they were just people. However, they were not ordinary because many were despotical dictators who could have taught Stalin a lesson about totalitarianism and forced labour. The ancient inscriptions that Egypt contrived always had a specific agenda; they were to glorify the pharaoh, boast of Egypt’s military power, prepare for the afterlife and most importantly to keep total control over the nation. Today, only North Korea allows us a glimpse into the real everyday life of the ancient Egyptians. Living here is glorious, because our dictator tells us so.
The records of ancient Israel are the opposite. This people group claimed that God Himself called and delivered them from Egypt for a purpose. To some extent they often had a free press and they recorded their stories in the words of Cromwell ‘warts and all.’ We learn that Moses was a murderer, Saul was an idol worshipper and David was an adulterer. This unenviable and pitiful list goes on and on. These stories don’t make you feel proud, yet there is something deeply reassuring about them. Egypt’s records allude to the worst political spin; whilst the Bible reminds us of real life - messy, ugly, sinful and at times shameful. These accounts remind us not of government propaganda, but of the real life stories of people that we know and the scandals of politicians we read about.
There are a tremendous amount of artefacts that illuminate and at times confirm the Bible’s stories. However, the further we go back into history, the harder it becomes to find independent confirmation of the veracity of these events. A great deal of our knowledge of ancient Egypt comes from their interminable stone tombs and temples, yet ancient Israel predominantly recorded their history on frail and fugacious perishable material. This fragile collection needed to be replicated in every generation and because of this lack of original records from