Moses And Atenism In Egypt

Biblical timeline states that in 1526BC, the Pharaoh of Egypt establishes a mandate that all newborn male Israelites be put to death. Consequently, Moses' mother hearing this puts her newborn son into a basket and places the basket in the Nile River in order to save him from certain death. Soon afterwards the Pharaoh's daughter sees the basket, rescues the baby boy from the river and raises it as an Egyptian prince. Many years go by, when in 1486BC Moses sees an Egyptian slave-master beating an Israelite slave, Moses becomes angered, begins to beat and eventually kill the Egyptian slave-master. As a result of killing the Egyptian slave-master Moses immediately leaves Egypt and travels to Midian where he rescues seven young women at a well from

The supporters of the Moses - Atenism theory explains that both the Pharaoh Akhenaton, who founded and established Atenism in Egypt, and Moses were alive at the same time. Furthermore, some even believe that Moses was the Pharaoh Akehenaton and the religion of Atenism failed when Moses left Egypt to lead the Israelites to Canaan. Another theory is that Moses was a priest of an Aten temple and when the temples were destroyed Moses left Egypt and found the Israelites, converting them to Atenism. Evidence from Egyptian historical records prove that Atenism became worshipped in Egypt from 1348 to 1328BC along with the Hebrew biblical historians that determined Moses was born in 1526BC, led the Israelites out of Egypt in 1446BC and died in 1406BC. There is a difference of seventy-eight years from the time that Moses died to the when Atenism became established in Egypt as a

The Egyptians along with the Greeks became noted as very good and reliable recorders of their history as along with the histories of other countries. Currently, no evidence from Egyptian historical records or archaeological discoveries supports the Old Testament story of Moses or the events that occurred at the time or even close to the time as described from books of Exodus and