Korah means "shaved one" as the priests in Egypt shaved their heads and bodies before their term of service in the temples. His brothers Aaron and Korah were Horite priests. Moses and his kin cannot be termed "Jews" as that term can be applied only after the Babylonian period. This means the plagues were not merely grave misfortunes but the most humiliating insults to the Egyptian people.ĭo you see the flaws in this Dayan's presentation? Each plague, she said, corresponds to a different Egyptian god and the element of creation over which they held dominion. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Dayan said with dramatic effect, “this is an Egyptian papyrus that is describing the same plagues that we have in our haggadah.” She explained her view that the 10 plagues were not random punishments inflicted by the Jewish God upon Egypt, but a “declaration of war” on the entire Egyptian system. the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt - from the firstborn of Pharoah that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison.” the land is without light and there is a thick darkness throughout the land. and the hail smote every herd of the field. In one manuscript, known as the Ipuwer papyrus, there is an eerie description of chaos in Egypt: “Plague is throughout the land,” Dayan’s translation reads, “blood is everywhere - the river is blood. In each of the Egyptian manuscripts Dayan discussed, the same familiar characters are mentioned: Moses (“an Egyptian name”), Pharoah, the Red Sea/Sea of Reeds (“Yam Suf” in Hebrew), Hebrews, Israelites and the presence of slaves in Egypt. In piecing together these manuscripts, Dayan framed an Exodus narrative based on facts of Egyptian history and language to prove her theory that a mass Exodus did occur and that it happened during the reign of Ramses II. To illustrate, she drew remarkable parallels between the language of Egyptian papyrus (hieroglyphs), the haggadah and the Bible, all of which contain references to the Exodus story. in Egyptology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is the wife of Jacob Dayan, Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles, told the group that linguistic evidence reveals an ancient and deeply involved Jewish presence in Egypt that eventually disappears. Two weeks before Passover, on March 17, Dayan presented her research to an audience of more than 200 at Sinai Temple. Pharoah’s papyrus scrolls may not seem the most reliable sources for investigating the story of the Israelite’s Exodus, but Egyptologist Galit Dayan has found in them much compelling evidence to support the historicity of the biblical tale.
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