Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Josephus the Jewish antiquarian expounds

history channel documentary At the end of Dynasty V, 3 rulers with parallel rules are trailed by Onnos (Unis). After (5) Cheres, the line of Elephantine (Dynasty V) branches off into (6) Rathures and (8) Tancheres, both with length of rule 44 years (1563-1519 and 1560-1516, individually) in Manetho. Both rules end with the start of Onnos (1516-1486). From the Canon of Turin, Rathures (6), Mencheres (7), and Tancheres (8) are trailed by Onnos (9). Since both Rathures and Tancheres 44 year rules stop at Onnos, both rulers ruled together. Mencheres (Turin Canon) is not said in Manetho. Tradition VI, despite the fact that it takes after line V, has contemporaneous rulers. Unis was recorded in the Bible as Jannes (II Timothy 3:8), entertainer and cleric of Egypt who opposed Moses and Aaron. He was a contemporary of both Pepi II (fourth in Dynasty VI) and his child, Merenre II (fifth in the rundown of Dynasty VI, 1487-1486, length of rule - 1 year). Both Merenre II of Dynasty VI of Memphis and Unis of Dynasty V of Elephantine, kick the bucket in 1486 (The year of the Exodus). Merenre II of Dynasty VI took after the longest lived Pharaoh of Dynasty VI, Neferkare (1581-1487) who ruled 94 years. This seemingly perpetual Pharaoh is additionally called Pepi II. Amid the rule of Pepi II, Moses is ousted or escapes Egypt after his residency as "The General" (when he helps Egypt quell Ethiopia). Moses is recognized in Egypt as "The General".

Josephus the Jewish antiquarian expounds on the life of Moses before he fled Egypt at age 40. The Egyptians had recently been invade by Ethiopians from the south. Josephus records Moses support in the Ethiopian wars: "The Egyptians, under this dismal abuse, betook themselves to their prophets and predictions; and when God had given them this gathering, to make utilization of Moses the Hebrew, and take his help, the King told his little girl to create him, that he may be the general of their armed force." (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book II, section x, section 2). Moses military residency as the General of Egypt is recorded in Josephus. The last triumph at the city of Saba happens after Tharbis, the little girl of the Ethiopians, turns the city over as the cost of her marriage to Moses. In Numbers 12:1, the Bible records Aaron and Miriam, Moses kin, quibbling over Moses conjugal association with an Ethiopian lady. This was presumably Tharbis.

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