![]() ![]() I’d be intrigued to know how these similarities strike other readers, so set out below is the text of ‘The Dark Days’ in its entirety (courtesy of The Culdian Trust / ). Over several years, whenever I have gone back to it, I’ve been struck by passages which not only echo parts of the Old Testament Book of Exodus – much as you’d expect ̶ but also match parts of Ancient Egyptian documents and inscriptions still surviving today. Like the rest of The Kolbrin, ‘The Dark Days’ is a translation with no certain provenance, contains no dates and the names are skewed – but nevertheless, there it is – and it’s an amazing read. It takes the form of a chapter somewhat gloomily entitled ‘The Dark Days’ in the Book of Manuscripts, one of six Egyptian books in a volume entitled The Kolbrin, published in 1994 (for more on The Kolbrin, see my earlier article, ‘Guide to The Kolbrin’ on this website). ![]() Well, this will sound much too good to be true, but a record does exist. How many books or articles of ancient history contain the complaint, ‘If only … we had the story of Exodus from an Ancient Egyptian point of view, we could work out who the Pharaoh was, date the Exodus, adjust Egyptian chronology, and use it to date other ancient Mediterranean civilisations.’ After all, it’s pure fantasy – isn’t it?įusty old academia is still scratching its head over the Old Testament Book of Exodus. Charlton Heston coming face to face with Rameses II and booming, ‘Let my people go!’ Fast forward twenty years, to me interviewing a well-known actress in a London film studio over coffee – when who should walk in and sit at the next table but her co-star and my childhood hero, Charlton Heston – and of course I was dumbstruck.Įveryone has been wowed at some time by the story of the Exodus, from the artist Joseph Turner to the director Ridley Scott – but we’re continually reminded that we shouldn’t take the event too seriously. DeMille’s blockbuster The Ten Commandments. Memories, memories: flashback to me sitting wide-eyed with my big brother in Edgware Odeon cinema in the late 1950s, glued to technicolour scenes of magic, locusts, boils and the parting of the waters courtesy of Cecil B. Yvonne Whiteman compares the Kolbrin version with five other ancient accounts that reinforce its long-forgotten record, explores what the Kolbrin has to say about one of history’s most astounding events – and comes to some surprising conclusions. What most people don’t know is that the Ancient Egyptians wrote an account of the Exodus which has survived, and it’s there in the Kolbrin. Everyone knows the Bible story of the Israelite Exodus. ![]()
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