Note: This is a special one-off episode produced out of our regular chronological order in direct response to listener feedback and requests for a deep dive into the dating of the Exodus.
For decades, the standard scholarly view has been that the Exodus never happened because the evidence doesn't exist in the time of Ramses II. But what if we've simply been looking at the wrong century? In this investigative special of The Jewish Journey, we apply a forensic lens to ancient chronologies to recover the "lost" timeline of the Israelites.
In this episode, we unpack:
The 1446 B.C. Anchor: How internal biblical markers and the ancient Seder Olam point to a specific, early date for the departure from Egypt.
The Cartographic and Chronological Error: Why the popular "Ramses Theory" fails forensic scrutiny and how a 200-year inflation in Egyptian dating has obscured the historical Israel.
The Amarna Smoking Gun: Examining the Amarna Letters—urgent diplomatic correspondence from Canaanite kings pleading for help against the invading "Habiru" at the exact moment the Bible places the Conquest.
The Merneptah Stele: Analyzing the earliest extra-biblical mention of "Israel" as an established nation, and why its existence in 1209 B.C. makes a 13th-century Exodus impossible.
Re-aligning History: How the New Chronology fixes the synchronization between the Egyptian Middle Kingdom’s collapse and the biblical arrival of Joseph and Moses.
Join us as we solve the ultimate chronological riddle and place the Exodus back into its true historical context.
