Highlights in Exodus: The Life, and Wife, of Moses

William Finck
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Highlights in Exodus: The Life, and Wife, of Moses

In our last discussion of Exodus, titled The Exodus In Controversy and History, we illustrated how the children of Israel in their nomadic post-Exodus period were described as the “Shasu of Yahweh”, which is to say, “Nomads of Yahweh”, by pharaoh Amenhotep III in inscriptions which had been made some time around 1390 BC. This correlates very well with our general estimations of the time of the event of the Exodus from 1450 BC. After over forty years of wandering in the Sinai desert, an event which the Egyptians must have spied out somewhat regularly, even if the children of Israel had gone north to the plains of Moab, and began to invade Canaan at that time, Amenhotep III must have known of their presence wandering in the wilderness, and recorded it as he had known it. This, beyond all doubt, proves the general veracity of the Exodus account.

The memory among the nobility of the Name Yahweh, a Name with which Moses had confronted the pharaoh in subsequent chapters of Exodus, also serves to corroborate the Exodus account of the plagues of Egypt and the ultimate release of Israel. So those events must have been sufficiently notable that the house of the pharaoh remember the Name of Yahweh.

Now here I am going to take an opportunity to take this proof of the historicity of the Exodus account a step further in Egyptian archaeology. While there is much academic debate as to whether the habiru or hapiru of the Tel el Amarna tablets are the Hebrews of Scripture, I would certainly insist that they are. But academic scholars point to the apparent use of the similar Akkadian word hapiru to describe groups of outlaws, brigands or robbers, or also marginalized outsiders or refugees. With this I disagree.

My first contention is this: a marginalized ethnic group taken to living outside of the fringes of society may naturally be perceived in such a manner, and the Hebrews, whether in Egypt or in Padanaram, do seem to have been marginalized and disenfranchised, having had no distinct land of their own. Then we should consider colloquialisms. For example, in Medieval Europe the word Slav, describing the people of Eastern Europe, became synonymous with slave in English, as the Vikings regularly traded Slavs as slaves in the West, whereby we have our word slave. In America today, if someone, even a friend, burdens you with undue requests, you may look at him and say something like “What am I, your nigger?” Of course, you are not making a statement that you are black, but blacks had been slaves for several hundred years, and they are the most recent slaves in our historical experience, so blacks are still associated with slavery in parts of our vernacular. The Israelites having escaped Egypt may easily have been seen in that same manner.

Highlights in Exodus: The Exodus In Controversy and History

William Finck
Historical Exodus, Exodus chapter 1
CHR20260710-Exodus-01.mp3

Highlights in Exodus: The Exodus In Controversy and History

Here I am going to endeavor a discussion of the Book of Exodus. This will not be a verse-by-verse commentary. Rather, I will focus on the historical details of the Exodus, on an outline of the history of the children of Israel in the Book of Exodus, and also on the Law, as Christians are often confused concerning the Law, in reference to which commandments are those that Christ expects His disciples to keep, and which commandments are the rituals and civic laws of Israel which are now obsolete under the New Covenant. I may interject comments on other passages where it is fitting. As we always have done in our Old Testament commentaries, we shall follow the King James Version, and do our best to note the significant differences which may be found in the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls and even the early translations found in the Hexapla of Origen.

On the history of the Exodus, most Christians who pay attention to the mainstream academic jargon, especially when it is echoed in popular media, should already be aware that this is always under attack by one academic scholar or another, and there are always fascinating new “discoveries” which seek to discredit the Exodus account. However sometimes there are discoveries which demonstrate its historicity, and hopefully we shall discuss the more significant of those here.

Some Christian Identity Perspectives: Eric Orwall with William Finck

William Finck
ChrSat20260704-Orwall.mp3

Eric Orwall is founder of the Return to the Land community in northern Arkansas.

For a more comprehensive answer to my objections of DNA studies to determine Whiteness and population movements, see the July 3rd Topical Discussions podcast titled Muddy Theories.

For a better answer to my objections to the existence of the Hyperborea described by Aristeas see this Christogenea Forum topic: Herodotus and Strabo Cast Doubt on the Hyperborea Story of Aristeas (I had actually forgotten which writer had called Aristeas a "charlatan" so I did not go there during the podcast.)

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July, 2026 Topical Discussions: Muddy Theories

William Finck
CHR20260703-Topical.mp3

July, 2026 Topical Discussions: Muddy Theories

Tonight we shall discuss the folly of “Tartaria” and other chronology gimmicks, and also the folly of building a Nationalist worldview based on DNA “Science!” which denies the existence of race as a biological entity.

Establishing the truth behind our general perceptions of historical chronology: the folly of “Tartaria” and other chronology gimmicks.

Some of this evidence, I had discussed in a recent podcast on 88streams.com, but I wanted to present a more complete version of the evidence against the so-called Tartaria theory. 

There are conspiracy theories of some ancient, advanced kingdom called Tartaria, which often include sub-conspiracies claiming that centuries had somehow been added to the calendar, centuries which never actually existed in some grand conspiracy to make antiquity seem even more remote. The proponents of these theories take advantage of the historical ignorance of their listeners, and are even ignorant themselves. Some claims even assert that the “Tartarian Empire” was global, that even buildings in America are the products of a bygone civilization which somehow disappeared in “mud floods” and natural disasters. All of these claims are patently absurd, and absolutely false.

The older European maps labelled most of the interior of Asia as “Tartary” only because Europeans were familiar with the people called Tatars who had entered Russia from the East in the Middle Ages. But the entire land east of Russia was unexplored, so they used that name to describe the entire unexplored region. This practice was evidently begun when the label Tartary first appeared on a map by a Venetian cartographer Giovanni Contarini in 1506, and then by Dutch explorer and cartographer Johannes Ruysch in 1507. The British and others continued the practice of labelling the quite vast but unexplored land as Tartary. But Magellan’s famous expedition circumnavigating the earth did not begin until 1519, Magellan himself died in 1521, and it was completed without him in 1522. But Russia did not conquer Siberia until the 17th century, and the rest of its territories in Asia until the 18th and 19th centuries.