‘Who Was Joseph’s Pharaoh?’ (2019)

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Who–me?

Fat-head Bible Scholars Inc. would have you believe that nothing in the Bible is true, none of those things ever really happened. More fool them.

The story of Joseph conflicts with no known facts, shares many similar details with generally accepted history–and there is no reason it cannot be true.

Who Was Joseph’s Pharaoh?

Ah, there’s the rub! Genesis doesn’t tell us the name of the Pharaoh who made Joseph his prime minister.

Well, so what? Egyptian bigwigs, especially royals, had lots of names, used interchangeably depending on the occasion. Ramesses for this, User-Maat-Re for that, Steverino for his niece’s wedding, and so on. The Bible does give us a few Pharaoh’s names; but the ones we’d really like to know–Joseph’s and Moses’ Pharaohs–are not given.

For the Bible’s purposes, the names of those two rulers just weren’t that important.