{"id":57148,"date":"2021-05-26T12:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=57148"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:07:54","slug":"pearces-potshots-28-pharaoh-didnt-know-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2021\/05\/pearces-potshots-28-pharaoh-didnt-know-joseph.html","title":{"rendered":"Pearce\u2019s Potshots #28: Pharaoh Didn’t Know Joseph?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Atheist anti-theist polemicist Jonathan MS Pearce wrote in his screed,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cDebunking the Exodus II: A Ridiculous Story with Ridiculous Claims\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(5-19-21):<\/span><\/p>\n

A new Pharaoh took up office and did not know Joseph (his brothers and all).\u00a0<\/span>[Is it likely that he would have NO knowledge of the second in command of his own country who single-handedly saved them from famine and who famously translated dreams as prophecies?]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The red font is his own. He explains that \u201cwriting in red\u201d signifies why he thinks \u201cthe claim is entirely improbable\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exodus 1:8<\/strong> (RSV)\u00a0Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jonathan casually assumes that this is right after Joseph died<\/em>, and to be fair, the text just two verses earlier referenced that event. But we still must read in context<\/em>. The Bible (like a lot of literature: both fiction and non-fiction) often makes great leaps in time without necessarily noting it. <\/span><\/p>\n

But in any event, the text shows what general time-period Exodus 1:8 refers to, if one will simply keep reading 17 more verses (the original Hebrew Bible had neither chapters nor verse numbers): though\u00a0there is also an indeterminate period of time within the narrative:<\/span><\/p>\n

Exodus 1:11-12\u00a0<\/strong>Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them [\u201cpeople of Israel\u201d: 1:9] with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am\u2019ses.\u00a0[12] But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exodus 1:15 commences the story that leads in an unbroken narrative to the birth of Moses. He is put into a basket in the Nile (2:3), and named\u00a0 (2:10).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The other internal clue we have that there is considerable time between Joseph\u2019s death and Moses\u2019 birth, is the genealogy laid out in Exodus 6:14-27. Charts of Moses\u2019 ancestry<\/span> (there are many<\/a>) are very helpful to visualize the time involved. From it we learn that Levi (Gen 29:34), Joseph\u2019s brother (Gen 30:23-24),\u00a0bore Kohath (Gen 46:11), Kohath bore Amram (Ex 6:18), and Amram, Moses (Ex 6:20). <\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, Joseph is Moses\u2019 great uncle, but three generations removed (brother of his great grandfather, Levi). A wonderful article by Charles F. Aling at Christian Answers.Net<\/em> <\/span>(\u201cIs the Biblical story of Joseph in Egypt verified?\u201d<\/a>), describes the relationship in time of Joseph and Moses:<\/span><\/p>\n

[T]wo major positions exist regarding the date of Joseph among serious students of the Joseph Story who accept its historicity. The majority of such modern scholars date Joseph to the Second Intermediate Period of Egyptian history [Hyksos period], ca. 1786-1570 BC (Vergote 1959; Kitchen 1962; Stigers 1976), . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This view is based primarily on two assumptions: first, that the so-called Late Date of the\u00a0Exodus\u00a0(during the reign of\u00a0Ramses\u00a0II) is correct, and second, that the rise to power of an Asiatic can best be placed during a period of Egyptian history when his fellow Asiatics, the Hyksos, controlled the government. . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If the\u00a0Exodus\u00a0occurred in the 13th century BC, and the Sojourn lasted approximately 400 years (430, according to\u00a0Exodus 12:40),\u00a0Joseph\u00a0would belong in the 17th century BC. But if the Exodus took place in the 15th century BC, Joseph\u2019s career would be shifted back to the 19th century BC, during the days of the 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I personally hold to an early Exodus. My only point is that one\u2019s view on the date of the Exodus is a determiner of one\u2019s date for Joseph.<\/span><\/p>\n

REFERENCES<\/span><\/p>\n

Kitchen, K. 1962 Joseph. P. 290 in\u00a0New Bible Dictionary<\/i>, ed. J.D. Douglas. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.\u00a0<\/span>1966\u00a0Ancient Orient and Old Testament<\/i>. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stigers, H. 1976\u00a0A Commentary on Genesis<\/i>. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vergot, J. 1959\u00a0Joseph en Egypte.<\/i>\u00a0Louvain: Orientalia et Biblica Lovaniensia.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em><\/span> (\u201cMoses\u201d<\/a>) informs us that he \u201cflourished 14th\u201313th century\u00a0BCE\u201d. It takes the late date view of the Exodus: \u201cthe most probable date for the Exodus is about 1290\u00a0BCE.\u201d Therefore, Moses\u2019 birth was \u201cprobably . . . in the late 14th century\u00a0BCE.\u201d The latter is deduced from the Bible\u2019s statement (Ex 7:7) that Moses was eighty in the year of the Exodus, which would makes his birthdate around 1370 BC, his death in 1250 BC, and Joseph\u2019s lifetime in the 17th c. BC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Robert I. Bradshaw, in his article,<\/span> \u201cArchaeology and the Patriarchs\u201d<\/a> notes about the time of Joseph:<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no direct evidence of Joseph\u2019s administration available from archaeology. However, a number of incidental features of the Joseph narrative (Gen. 37-50) have been shown to be consistent with the Hyksos period. The price of 20 shekels was the average slave price in the 18th century BC (cf. Gen. 37:28), later the price rose until it was 40-50 shekels in the 15th-14th centuries. The technical terms used in Pharaoh\u2019s court (\u2018Butler\u2019, \u2018Baker\u2019), as well as court (Gen. 41:14) and prison procedure and etiquette have been shown to be accurate. The Vizier of Egypt was known as the \u201cSealbearer of the King of Lower Egypt\u201d (cf. Gen. 41:42) and the gold chain sanctioned \u201ca Vizier\u2019s control over regulation of food supply.\u201d (Gen. 41:42).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the previous paragraph he estimated the time of the Hyksos rule of Egypt to be \u201cc. 1700-1550 BCE.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s difficult to find any material where anyone makes an educated guess as to the date of Joseph\u2019s death. In any event, we know from the Bible that three generations separate him from Moses. And we know that some time elapsed between his death and the new \u201chostile\u201d king:<\/span><\/p>\n

Exodus 1:6-7<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.\u00a0[7] But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Verse 7 sounds to me like a generation or two, just as 1:12 sounds like a good chunk of time: \u201cthe more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.\u201d Then after whatever this period of time amounts to, we get the birth narrative of Moses, whom we know is three generations younger than Joseph.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cchronological question\u201d \u2014 to sum up \u2014 then becomes: \u201chow much time passed (implied) in the narrative between Joseph\u2019s death and this new king, and between the period of Israelites multiplying, to the time of Moses?\u201d In any event, when all these things are considered and factored in, there is clearly a significant interim time period (though it\u2019s hard to nail down exactly<\/em> how much) between Joseph\u2019s death and this new anti-Israeli king-Pharaoh, which would and could easily account for him not \u201cknow[ing]\u201d him. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like the text says that Joseph died, and the next day the new king took power, and had already forgotten all about Joseph (that would be the typical frivolous atheist caricature of Scripture). There are long time periods mixed in, as shown. Jonathan assumes there are none, but I see no good reason to agree with him. This is yet another non-issue; much ado about nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Joseph in prison interpreting dreams, by\u00a0Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680)<\/span> [Flickr<\/a> \/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Summary<\/em>:\u00a0Atheist Jonathan Pearce mocks the biblical presentation of \u201cPharaoh Didn\u2019t Know Joseph\u201d based on the data of Exodus 1:8. But if one reads the context<\/em>, the \u201cproblem\u201d vanishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. They have three sons and a daughter, and reside in southeast Michigan (metro Detroit).","sameAs":["https:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dave.armstrong.798","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@LuxVeritatisApologetics"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/author\/davearmstrong"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}