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Did the Pharaohs come before the Jews or after?

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The exact origins of Judaism are lost in the mists of time, but the Jews claim a history about 3000 years old. The pharaohs of Egypt are much older, however. The unification of upper and lower Egypt under a single pharaoh is conventionally dated to around 3150 BC, 2000 years earlier. read more

Let's define Jews as being descendants of Jacob. Jacob's son Joseph goes to Egypt and eventually becomes the Pharoah's right-hand man, so the institution of Pharaoh must predate Jews, Biblically speaking. read more

"History of the Jews of Egypt" (PDF). Dammond, Liliane (2007). The Lost World of the Egyptian Jews: First-person Accounts from Egypt's Jewish Community In the Twentieth Century. read more

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