Talk:Pharaoh of the Exodus

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pharoah of exodus, cannot be Ramsis II for all the previously stated reasons; no mention of drowning, losing his entire army via returning red sea, etc. I feel we should take a look at Immanual -Velokovsky's World in Chaos). In this long rejected speculative historic proposition, Velokovsky lines up the biblical narrative with the Ipuwar papyrus it is interesting to see how more convincing his argument if you adjust the calender to use the explosion of Thera as the precipitating event. Social collapse secondary to meteorologic techtonic or volcanic event makes sense. The mass exodus of everyone affected was either a necessity of survival or the opportunity afforded by the general failure of the Egyptian kingdom at this time. The wide spread fragmentations of trade, pan Mediterranean maritime destruction, and the political weakening attendant, likely precipitates the prostration of the Minoans and submersion by the warlike mycaneans. Similarly the Egyptians are overun by the Hykos. The Hyksos domination is a cultural dark age beginning speculatively while the Egyptians were weakened by the catastrophy of Thera. The biblical narrative is mum after the "escape" concerning the fate of Egypt without a pharoah or his son. There is mention of conflicts between the Israelites and the Ammalikites near mt. moriah. This enemity is apparently deep and long remembered. The severity and barbarity of the Hyksos domination was also not forgotten by the Egyptians. When did the pharoahic crown return to the Egyptians, where was the royal family during the domination?, did the Hyksos simply dissappear or were they defeated by expatriates?, when do these events occur? Another interesting consequence of adjusting the timing of the exodus with the explosion of thera as described by Velokovsky is that the restablishment of the Egyptian Dynasties beginning with Tutmoses I, would be contemporaneous with the rein of Saul in Israel, Tutmosis II with the rein of David,, and Hatsepsut with the rein of Solomen