The Exodus: Aaron's Story
Book Details
Author(s)Alasdair McPherson
ISBN / ASINB00A3R1OS2
ISBN-13978B00A3R1OS0
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
Why the 'Laws of Moses'? Why not the laws of Abraham or Noah? The laws would only be needed in the time of Moses because that is when the tribe of Israel replaced ancestor worship with the one God.
If you had seen the children of your Egyptian neighbours die at the hand of God and then watched an army drown when the path He had opened collapsed on your pursuers, would your faith in God have been so weak that you would have defied him by making a graven image?
This novel proposes an alternative narrative, tying the biblical account to the history of Egypt. Canaan was a colony of Egypt for all but a hundred years at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty - the only period for almost a thousand years when it would have been an attractive location for settlement by a nation fleeing Egyptian rule.
The Aten of the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten became the one God of the Children of Israel. When they persisted in their beliefs after the Aten was proscribed they were hounded out of Egypt, setting out to the Promised Land of Canaan.
If you had seen the children of your Egyptian neighbours die at the hand of God and then watched an army drown when the path He had opened collapsed on your pursuers, would your faith in God have been so weak that you would have defied him by making a graven image?
This novel proposes an alternative narrative, tying the biblical account to the history of Egypt. Canaan was a colony of Egypt for all but a hundred years at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty - the only period for almost a thousand years when it would have been an attractive location for settlement by a nation fleeing Egyptian rule.
The Aten of the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten became the one God of the Children of Israel. When they persisted in their beliefs after the Aten was proscribed they were hounded out of Egypt, setting out to the Promised Land of Canaan.

