If the Exodus account can be questioned it is only because the Pharaohs of
Egypt didn't make any record of it. That is not unusual. They tended to
record only their victories and not their defeats and they tried to erase
anything historical that was contrary to their nationalistic image or
ideology.Thutmose III, for example, chiseled away inscriptions made of
QueenHatshepsuton a stone monumental record found at Deir al-Bahri in
Egypt.
Manetho the Egyptian priest and historian hated the Jews and Josephus
quotes Manetho as saying that the ancestors of the Jews "entered Egypt in
their myriads and subdued the inhabitants," Josephus said that Manetho
"goes on to admit that they were afterwards driven out of the country,
occupied what is now Judaea, founded Jerusalem, and built the temple." -
Against Apion, I, 228 (26).
Though Manetho's account is regarded as unhistorical the fact remains that
he mentions them as being in Egypt, going out and in other writings
identifies Moses withOsarsiph, an Egyptian priest. Josephus also mentions
two other Egyptian historians; Chaeremon, and Lysimachus who said that
Joseph and Moses were driven out of Egypt at the same time. - Against
Apion, I, 228, 238 (26); 288, 290 (32); 299 (33); 304-311 (34).
