Joseph’s Pharaoh? We still don’t know.
We keep asking the question, but we still don’t have an answer: Who was Joseph’s Pharaoh?
Bear in mind that the art of history, as we know it, was not known in ancient Egypt. They specialized in rubbing out names and incidents that those in power chose to forget. We still do that, don’t we?
We would like to know the name of the pharaoh who appointed Joseph his prime minister. God has not decided that we need to know.
(The computer has been battling me tooth and claw this morning. You’re lucky to be reading this.)
It has not been firmly established who that pharaoh was, but Sesosteros III is the most
accepted scholarly belief. I certainly do not know if that is correct, but quite a few historians agree on it.
I don’t know, either, but it seems a good guess to me.
The Patterns of Evidence series has gone into this, in some depth, and has suggested a somewhat different timeline which makes the history of the Exodus much easier to reconcile with observable facts.
I was just about to recommend that very documentary!
I have a hunch we won’t see that pharaoh in heaven.