Incidently, the Torah of Moshe extensively details laws of leprosy.
This wasnt Hansons disease but an affliction which in humans turns
the skin pale and the hair white or yellow. Lepers who turned pale
from head to foot could pass the trait on to their descendents and
were not considered impure.

Manetho writes of two royal advisors [of Ramses II]
suggesting the expulsion of a population of "lepers"
and such from Egypt which we infer as the origins of
the Judeans of Manetho's time. He writes that those
to be cast out were led by a man named Osarsif from
Heliopolis who changed his name to Moses demanding
of the "impure" people stationed in Avaris that they slay
roast and eat the sacred animals and cease worship of
the gods. The then reigning pharaoh was supposed to
have fought the impure people and their foreign allies to
the point of persuing those in retreat clear to the border of
Syria.

Another Egyptian writer Cheremon tells a similar though
even more confusing story as compared to the one in the
Torah. He makes Joseph a conspirator alongside Moses!
This author also makes a character who,
after as a babe being born from a mother
who concealed herself in a cave,delivers Egypt from
the polluted ones.

Manetho gives these royal names in his version:

0) Ramses - father of Amenophis
1) Amenophis
2) Sethos Ramses - son of Amenophis

Cheremon mentions:

1) Amenophis
2) Messene - his son

Torah tells us the Hebrews worked on the cities Pithom and Raamses.
If so, the Exodus had to happen after there was a Ramses.
Currently Egyptologists know of these successive 19th
dynasty pharaohs. They fit Torah, Manetho and Cheremon:

1) ? ?Ramses I ? ?-1307
2) ? ?Sethos I ? ? ? -1306
3) ? ?Ramses II ? -1290 ?(as Manetho's Ramses)
4) ? ?Merneptah ?-1224 ?(as Manetho's and Cheremon's Amenophis)
5a) Sethos II ? ? ?-1214 ?(as Manetho's Sethos grandson of Ramses son of Amenophis)
5b) Amenmesse ?co-regent w/Sethos II (as Cheremon's Messene son of Amenophis)

Seeing Manetho and Cheremon possibly using Amenophis
for Merneptah their sequence otherwise fits known history though
the dates are skewed by 100 years from the Jewish
reckoning of circa ?-1313 (i.e., 2448 AM) as the year of the Exodus.

Still, knowing Moshe was 80 at the Exodus and
80 years before Merneptah's reign gives -1304 to -1294
for the beginning years of repair work on Pithom and Raamses
which allows the latter city to be named in honor of Ramses I.

I used Josephus, his fragments of Manetho and Cheremon, as my source.
Against Apion I.25 ? through I.35 ?http://www.fullbooks.com/Against-Apion1.html

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