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Ancient Egypt Confirms: Genesis Is History
Ancient Egypt Confirms: Genesis Is History
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Manetho was an Egyptian historian/priest of c. 270 BC.1 His chronology of the kings of Egypt, which differs from the Bible by several centuries, has led some evangelical archaeologists astray. This is not a minor issue, and has been used to discredit the Bible. But even several secular historians are starting to realize Manetho’s chronology is in need of drastic downwards revision for reasons he would not have known; some of the kings he thought reigned successively turn out to have ruled simultaneously.
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Importantly, though, some of what Manetho wrote directly corroborates Genesis. In his history of Egypt, he “wrote that ‘after the Flood’ Ham the son of Noah begat ‘Aegyptus or Mestraim’, who was the first to establish himself in the area now known as Egypt at the time when the tribes began to disperse.”3
Importantly, though, some of what Manetho wrote directly corroborates Genesis.
The Bible says that Ham begat Mizraim. Egypt today (one of the first civilizations to spring up after the Flood) is known as Mizraim or mitsrayim ... .Manetho wrote that the dispersion of the tribes was five years after Noah’s descendant Peleg was born.5 This agrees with Genesis 10:25 which says of Peleg that “in his days the earth6 was divided.”
Further, Egyptologist Patrick Clarke says that from the earliest times the ancient Egyptians “called themselves and their land km.t (both pronounced as a throaty Kham (i.e. Cham or Ham).”7,8 Clearly, not just Manetho, but the ancient Egyptians in general knew full well what so many modern theologians and seminarians like to deny—that Genesis is history.
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