Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

>
> The problem with that ID is--what happens to the number in Kings I--where
it
> states that Solomon's temple was built 480 years after the exodus from
Egypt?
> This "Beya" lived circa 1180 BCE.  Not only that, he was murdered.  By a
> pharaoh.  The inscription reads "Year 5, 3rd month of Shomu, Day 29.  This
day the
> scribe of the tomb, Paser, has come to say 'Pharaoh, lph, has killed the
> great enemy Bey.'"  Pierre Grandet believes the king who did the deed was
Siptah,
> the same boy-king whom Bey/Beya had once manipulated as a puppet.  Indeed,
> Year 4 of Siptah is the last we see of the chancellor in other records.
>
> Marianne Luban


While I do not think that there is any reason to identify Bey with Moses,
your comment is only a problem if you insist that the 480 is a historical
date, putting the Exodus in the 15th century. We just recently had quite a
long discussion on that topic.

Yigal