Pharaoh Merneptah and the First Mention of Israel

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Pharaoh Merneptah and the First Mention of Israel

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In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine the reign of Pharaoh Merneptah, the thirteenth son of Ramesses II who took the throne in his sixties and faced a very different world from his father's. They explore his victory stele, the Merneptah Stele, which contains the earliest known reference to 'Israel' outside the Bible—a brief but historically seismic inscription. The conversation covers the Libyan invasion of the Nile Delta around 1208 BCE, the appearance of the mysterious 'Sea Peoples' in Merneptah's records, his campaign into Canaan, and the careful wording of the stele that lumps Israel among defeated peoples. They also discuss Merneptah's building projects, his mortuary temple at Thebes, and the question of whether his reign was a last gasp of Egyptian power before the Bronze Age Collapse. The episode touches on the geopolitical pressures Egypt faced, including the Hittite decline, and how Merneptah navigated being the son of the empire's greatest builder. #Merneptah #MerneptahStele #Israel #SeaPeoples #LibyanInvasion #RamessesII #EgyptNineteenthDynasty #BronzeAgeCollapse #Canaan #VictoryStele #Egyptology #AncientEgypt #Thebes #Karnak #Pharaoh #History #FexingoHistory #AncientNearEast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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