BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: WERE JOSEPH AND IMHOTEP THE SAME MAN?

THE GENESIS OF ISRAEL AND EGYPT
By Emmet Sweeny, 2001 (2nd ed.)

INTRODUCTION

One of the perennial ambitions of Christian Europeans, throughout the centuries, has been the verification of the Bible. Beginning with Eusebius, in the 4th century, Christian writers sought to enlist the histories of Mesopotamia and Egypt to answer the attacks of those who viewed the Old Testament as fable or, even worse, as propaganda.

In this spirit Eusebius, employing the Egyptian history of the Ptolemaic scholar Manetho, constructed a chronology for Egypt based on biblical timescales. Thus for example he followed earlier Jewish commentators in tying in the start of Egyptian history with the start of Hebrew history.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN STATUE IN A MUSEUM STARTED MOVING, SPINNING AT 180 DEGREES CAUSING FEAR BEHIND MYSTERY OF THE MOVING MUMMY

Ancient Egyptian statue has started MOVING sparking fears it has been struck by a ‘curse of the Pharaohs‘

• 10-inch tall relic, is an offering to Egyptian God Osiris, God of the dead
• It has been filmed on a time lapse, seemingly spinning 180 degrees
• TV physicist Brian Cox among the experts being consulted on mystery
• But some now believe there could be ‘spiritual explanation’ for turning statue