A LIGHT SHINING IN THE DARKNESS

Ahmose son of Ebana holds a special place in ancient Egyptian history.  In his autobiography, written on the walls of his tomb in El-Kab, is preserved his eye-witness account of a war of liberation waged by the native Egyptians against foreign overlords we've come to describe as Hyksos, though this was not the Egyptian  term for them.  This war was later removed completely from the Royal Archives by parties still unknown (but if not by the Greeks, then most likely during the Edicts of Emperor Theodosius).  Until Ahmose’s tomb was discovered in 1825 A.D., only second-handed reports of this war had survived through the lost writings of Manetho, who was cited as authority by future historians. The autobiography of Ahmose corroborated Manetho’s report and established its veracity on the matter.

Ahmose son of Ebana's autobiography also provided an Empirical Nexus with Joshua 19:6.  For he relates, "One besieged Sharuhen  (ŠꜤ r­­­Ꜥ hꜤ nꜤ) for 6 years, (and) his majesty took it...." [Breasted, J.H., Ancient Records Of Egypt,  Vol. 2, p. 8].  This implies that the Book Of Joshua is a later edited version of Egypt's war of liberation and subsequent conquest of Canaan (mistakenly attributed to the Biblical Israelites)!

Bear in mind that we are informed that  Manetho was instructed to compile a history of Egypt by either Ptolemy I Soter or Ptolemy II Philadelphos, the latter of whom it is alleged the first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was commissioned.  The Ptolemies had access to the Egyptian archives, so they knew  of the Hyksos expulsion!  And they also knew that the archives contained no records  of a mass Exodus led by a Hebrew named Moses.  And what we now know is that, whatever physical evidence existed concerning that war of liberation, it had to be obliterated after  Manetho composed his Aegyptiaca  (History of Egypt)!  Fortunately for us, the culprits had neglected to check the tombs.

Circa 300 years after Manetho, enter Josephus, an avid citer of Manetho.  He included in his Against Apion  a claim that rouses the indignation of the Jews to this day.  Regarding the Hyksos, Josephus wrote: “He (Manetho) spoke of us.”  Italics mine.  Anyone who’s familiar with the Biblical Narrative of the Egyptian Captivity knows that, un-like the Hyksos, the ancient Israelites never took control of Lower Egypt for a protracted period of time. We can deduce at least 4 conclusions from Josephus’ statement: (1) The Bible, as we now know it, hadn’t been written when Josephus made that claim. (2) The Bible had  been written as we know it, but Josephus didn’t have access to it.  (3) The Bible as we now know it had  been written, and Josephus did  have access to one, but deliberately altered  it. Or (4) The Bible --- in any  version --- hadn’t been written at all!  But we’ve been taught that the Hebrew Bible was definitely  translated into Greek during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphos.  Therefore, we can strike out option 4 --- IF what we were taught is actually true.  However, a 5th option must be taken into consideration: The Hebrew Bible wasn’t translated into Greek, but that a Greek  prototype  was later translated into Hebrew.  Because whoever was responsible for the core structure of the LXX had  to have access to official Egyptian records. The Jews never did.  The Jadeists endorse option 5!  Why?  Because our research indicate that the Greeks were aware of Heliopolis being a center of Lunar  Theology before it was supplanted by a solar one; thus, also aware that On was associated with Iah through Osiris, long before the Jews identified Iah as a contraction of Yah-WEH --- The so-called  IN-EFFABLE NAME!