The manuscript eerily mirrors Exodus from the point of view of the Egyptians, and goes on to reveal one of the greatest parallels in the details of a bloody river, “ Indeed, the river is blood, yet men drink of it. God uses Moses and Aaron to turn the waters of Egypt into blood. – Behold, things have been done which have not happened for a long time past the king has been deposed by the rabble.īehold, he who was buried as a falcon of biers, and what the pyramid concealed has become empty.īehold, it has befallen that the land has been deprived of the kingship by a few lawless men.
– Behold, the fire has gone up on high, and its burning goes forth against the enemies of the land. Indeed, herbage and wash down with water neither fruit nor herbage can be found the birds, and is taken away from the mouth of the pig.
– Would that there were an end of men, without conception, without birth! Then would the land be quiet from noise and tumult be no more. Indeed, many dead are buried in the river the stream is a sepulcher and the place of embalmment has become a stream. – Indeed, are violent, pestilence is throughout the land, blood is everywhere, death is not lacking, and the mummy-cloth speaks even before one comes near it. – Indeed, poor men have become owners of wealth, and he who could not make sandals for himself is now a possessor of riches. Here are some excerpts, chapters are in Roman numerals:
What he uncovered was an ancient poem called “The Admonitions of Ipuwer”, that poetically seems to chronicle a terrible event in Egypt’s kingdom. Enter the Ipuwer papyrus, a manuscript found in the early 19th century, and later translated into English by Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner in 1909. Still, one would think that due to the magnitude of this event, there would be something. Some have inferred that the Egyptian dynasty of Exodus would not have wanted such a shameful defeat to be remembered, and that may be a sound theory in light of human nature, as it happens today. The Ipuwer Papyrus, located at the National Archaeological Museum in Leiden, Netherlands. When considering Egyptian records, dates just didn’t match up and so researchers encountered a host of problems there were no Semitic people in slavery that fit the era (Jews belong to this group), the Pharaohs’ life and death were accounted for in a far less dramatic fashion, and most importantly, there was no mention of cataclysmic events like water turning into blood or mass deaths of the first-born child, events that would be very difficult to forget. However, is there extra-biblical proof, even the faintest traces, of Moses’s mission from God to save the Israelites from slavery and the terrible plagues that followed? It seemed for the longest time that the consensus was a resounding “no”. The bible’s books of Moses, the Pentateuch, is just as old as many other ancient manuscripts that are taken seriously by the scholarly world. For us believers, the testimony in scripture is more than enough. As archaeologists and theologians sift through the dust of history, reaping long-lost rewards, there is one that has eluded their grasp evidence of the Exodus.
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