Pharaon of the Exodus

In the Bible, the name of the Pharaon of the Exode is not mentioned, one knows it only under the name of “Pharaon”. The candidates with the identity are:

Thoutimaïos ? (or Dedoumes) This assumption, whose factuality was not checked, and of which the only quoted reference, David Rohl, is discussed enough in the world of Egyptology, rests on the Canon Royal of Manéthon, which associates the end of the reign of this king with the Hyksôs;
Amenhotep {{IV}}, also known under the name of Akhénaton;
Ramsès {{II}};
Mérenptah .

The candidate most frequently accepted is Ramsès, but there exists proof, neither documentary, nor archaeological, that it dealt with the Ten plagues of Egypt, that he would have driven out Hebrew slaves fugitive. Actually this last assumption is rather not very credible.

According to Messod and Roger Sabbah, it would be Aÿ, which would have ordered the deportation of the monothéïstes faithful to the single god Aton. Those, very many, would be the origin of the Hebrew people. There is not an other trace of deportation in the history of Egypt. Aÿ was a general of the Pharaon Aménophis V become Akhénaton. After the death of this one he would have become regent during the reign of the young person Toutankamon then Pharaon with died of this last. Aÿ which attempted to restore the worship of Amon, replaced a time by the worship of Aton, decided " chasser" the recalcitrant ones out of Egypt. The words " driven out of Égypte" appear in chapter 12 of the Exodus verse 39. The facts thus reported would have proceeded about the years 1340 av. J. - C. either one century before the reign of Ramsès. This assumption however rests for the moment only on few solid evidence.

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