Who is the Pharaoh from Exodus

[eddy714]

Hello Brethren hope all is well,

I have been attending my confirmation class and we were reading Exodus, and a fellow brethren asked a question regarding Pharaoh’s name.

I responded that it wasn’t in the Bible but now I am curious to know if that Pharaoh had a name.

I googled it up but got some weird answers, but one website had this name for the Pharaoh it was Amenhotep I.:dancing: But it was just a theory as it could have been someone else:banghead:

Does anyone have any idea who could have been that Pharaoh or am I over analyzing things and should I just give it a rest:confused

God Bless

Praying for the souls in Purgatory

 

[PerfectTiming]

According to Wikipedia, there are three pharaohs mentioned in the Book of Exodus and there are varying candidates that have been suggested. It’s never specifically mentioned which makes it near impossible to be certain.

 

[rom422]

Hello Brethren hope all is well,

I have been attending my confirmation class and we were reading Exodus, and a fellow brethren asked a question regarding Pharaoh’s name.

I responded that it wasn’t in the Bible but now I am curious to know if that Pharaoh had a name.

I googled it up but got some weird answers, but one website had this name for the Pharaoh it was Amenhotep I.:dancing: But it was just a theory as it could have been someone else:banghead:

Does anyone have any idea who could have been that Pharaoh or am I over analyzing things and should I just give it a rest:confused

God Bless

Praying for the souls in Purgatory

I am not a historian, but based on some articles that I have read, Thutmose III was the Pharaoh of he Oppression, and Amenhotep II the Pharaoh of the Exodus. See allanturner.com/pharaoh.html.

 

[RPRPsych]

Rom422 is correct. The Pharaoh of the Oppression was probably Thutmose, and his successor was Amenhotep II. This proposal has significant historical support, and is consistent with the chronologies in Sacred Scripture itself - most particularly, the statement that the Temple in Jerusalem was built 480 years after the Exodus. Since we know that the Temple was built around 960 B.C., 960+480 is 1,440 B.C. which falls right in the reign of Amenhotep II.

Modern scholarship has sometimes named Rameses II (generically “Rameses”) as the Pharaoh of the Exodus, a view that can also be seen in the films The Ten Commandments and The Prince of Egypt. Rameses II reigned from around 1290-1224 B.C., and one of the cities built with the labour of Hebrew slaves, “Ramesses” (Exodus 1:11), appears to be named after him. According to this timeline, which is found in some “modern” Bibles such as the New Jerusalem version, the Exodus is dated around 1,250 B.C. There is some archaeological evidence to support this - for example, evidence of ruins dated to the time of Joshua’s conquest, about 40 years later in 1,200 B.C. - but this date disturbs the overall chronology. The older Jerusalem Bible dates the Exodus slightly later, during the reign of Mer-Ne-Ptah, successor of Rameses II - but there are problems with both of these views; for example, Mer-Ne-Ptah’s stele dated around 1,200 B.C. describes a “victory over the Israelites”, which is hard to explain if they were still wandering in the desert after the Exodus and not yet a nation.

There is no “authoritative” Church statement on this, but the timeline of the Douay-Rheims, historical evidence and traditional chronologies all support the earlier date c. 1,440 B.C. and Amenhotep II as the Pharaoh - a position that there is no firm reason to reject.

 

[lutherlic]

Many people, including the weak and powerless, are named in Exodus. They are to be remembered. The Pharaoh, although strong and powerful, is not named in order that he not be so honored.

 

[mskejj]

I thought it was interesting when I learned that in the ancient world, to record a name was to give honor, and to blot out or refuse to name was to dishonor the person. By refusing to name Pharaoh…it is a form of judgment and his wickedness leads to him name being blotted out of the book of life. But the two midwives who refused to kill the Hebrew boys even though being directed to do so by the Pharaoh…are named for us to remember…Shiphrah and Puah.

Doesn’t help with knowing today which reign but now I understand why he isn’t named.