Ramesses II: Egypt’s greatest pharaoh?
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The Relationship Between Ramses and Exodus
The biblical narrative and the evidence archaeological and and textual from Egypt really don't have any any points of which they intersect. And it's very hard to point to any specific incident within Ramses the second reign that one might then interpret in light of the biblical tradition. He was a non-genarian who'd reign for 66 years, left the greatest architectural legacy of any Pharaoh, and to be supplanted in the popular imagination by an 18 year old who reigned for less than a decade has not gone down well with Ramses.
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