Amen!!

Walt, your definition of schizophrenia is not one that any psychiatrist would recognise. Schizophrenia is not a belief in supernatural beings. Belief in supernatural beings is found in all cultures. It is normal, not pathological. If you are going to promote your atheism, at least try to do it in a sensible way.

The word in the Tablet of Merenptah ,doesn’t mention the word Isreal at all ,It is Is rear !! The Pharaoh in the Bible suppose to be dead drowning in the Sea .Merenptah Mummy is in the Second floor of the Egyptian Museum In Cairo ,no salt traces (Which would show if there were any) ….The Tablet also talks about the 5th Year of his reign ,which therefore indicates he is still alive brag about his victories out of his 11 years of reign .The More suggested one is to be Ahomse (Perhaps) who has a broken Tablet in the Museum (In the store room ) Talks about incidents very similar to the 10 Plagues !!!

The Bible chronology gives an Exodus date of 1446 BC. If the Bible chronology is matched up with the High Chronology for the 18th dynasty of Egypt then it becomes clear that the pharaoh of the Exodus was Amenhotep II. According to the Bible just before the Exodus there died a pharaoh who had reigned for at least 35 years. This fits Thutmose III who reigned 54 years; after Thutmose III came Amenhotep II.

Walter, I don’t know where you get the idea Kenneth Kitchen and Hoffmeier think the Exodus was 600 years before the building of the Temple by Solomon. Both of them believe the Exodus was about 1250 BC, and both of them believe the Temple began to be built about 968 BC.