"Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus?"  was the culminating effort in my decade long search to answer that very question.  It was published in January 1994 by Horizon Publishers & Distributors, Inc.

In this book I make the claim that the destruction of Egypt, caused by the ten plagues which preceded the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, would have so devastated the country, it would have been impossible for Egypt to then subdue Palestine and Syria as occurred during the reign of Ramses II, who is usually credited as having been this Pharaoh.  It was obvious to me that, the calamity which struck Egypt at this time would have brought about the end of the existing social order.  I then studied Egyptian history to see if such an event had occurred.  It turns out that it happened twice.  In fact these collapses of the social order of the country have been used to divide the ancient history of Egypt into an Old Kingdom period, a Middle Kingdom period and an Empire period.  The two gaps between these periods are known as the first and second intermediate periods.  After careful analysis of these two periods I was able to present evidence that the collapse of the Old Kingdom, resulting in the first intermediate period matched the account of the exodus in detail.

This answered several questions I had been asking.  I was able to identify the pharaoh who "knew not Joseph" and who enslaved the Israelites as Pepy II, the only pharaoh who ruled Egypt long enough to fit the biblical story.  I also identified his son Nemtyemsaf II, who ruled for only a few years before the collapse of the country as the "Pharaoh of the Exodus".

This identification had the additional benefit of solving the puzzle of how thousands of years of Egyptian history could fit in the gap between the first two thousand years of the Earth's temporal existence and the third thousand years which began with the birth of Abraham.  It was not thousands of years but hundreds instead!

Who was the

Pharaoh of the Exodus?

I have been interested in ancient history from an early age.  The first hardback book I ever bought was "The Third Thousand Years" by W. Cleon Skousen.  I read the entire three volume series but I noticed that there was an unexplained gap between the first volume and the second.  Thousands of years of Egyptian history were missing!  Where did they go?  The question haunted me for years.

A careful reading of the book of Exodus and a study of the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II, convinced me that the two accounts were simply incompatible and so I began to search for a book that could answer that question.  To make a long story short I was unable to find that book and so I ended up writing it.