Why no Exodus records in Egypt? Here's why?

The reason why no records of the Jews just before the Exodus survive in
Egyptian records is not because anyone wanted to suppress the idea that the
Jews were never there, but likely *when*! You see, you can't have a
floating record of the Jews in Egypt. The record would tell you when they
were there and perhaps what king was ruling at the time they left. *That*
information would be extremely critical since it would be directly used to
date the beginning of Solomon's reign.

Of interesting note in that regard, now that we know the Jews left Egypt in
the 1st year of Akhenaton, Akhenaton is generally well dated in mid 14th
century BCE. In fact, using the KTU 1.78 astroomical text to date his year
12 to 1375BCE only slightly moves up his rule by 8 years or so. But think
of these implications! If Akhenaton was the Exodus pharoah that would down
date Solomon by some 60 years. but placing him in the right archaeological
time period for the buildings at Jerusalem! But downdating Solomon to
910-870BCE would contradict the timeline that was accepted in later years, a
timeline we know know expanded the Persian period by 82 years. So whomever
was interested in maintaining this revised timeline might have been very
interested in destroying records of the Jews in Egypt since obviously those
references are limited to the specific pharoahs involved.

That this is a valid consideration relates to the Book of Esther which was
revised by the 3rd Century CE to accommodate the revised chronology. At the
end of the 1st Century the Book of Esther was written in the context of her
being married to "Artaxerxes" the son of Xerxes as related by Josephus.
This contradicts the Biblical account. Xerxes and Artaxerxes are the same
king per the Bible and original history. The revised history makes Xerxes
the father of Artaxerxes, a propaganda lie to help avoid a war with the
Greeks after Xerxes invaded Athens. The revised book of Esther changed the
name of "Artaxerxes" to Ahashuerus and thus affords this book to be applied
to Xerxes. This was a very deliberate and focussed revision. Whomever
would bother to do this, certainly would attempt to remove any specific
references to the Jews in association with any particular pharoah if it had
not already been done.

But its possible they may have missed something. If so, the records would
be during the reign of Amenhotep III and Akhenaton. These are the times
when the Jews were closest to being a distinct national group.

L. Wilson


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