Ralph Ellis
Special guest
Life is a challenge and Ralph Ellis has faced more than a few. He started as a software engineer, but moved into the equally technical spheres of mineral surveying, aviation, and palaeoclimatology, but always maintained and built upon the archaeological interests and research of his father.
As a historian, Ralph has toured the Mediterranean for more than three decades searching for secular similarities and parallels between the apparently disparate disciplines of history and theology. And the research has been very fruitful with many new fundamental discoveries being made, mostly in Egypt. But Ralph has finally produced an extraordinary theological discovery – the true identity and genealogy of the biblical Jesus in the historical record. This painstaking and complex historical crossword puzzle has taken more than two decades to put together, but at last the real King Jesus can step out from the millennial shadows.
Links to Ralph’s books (highly recommended): http://edfu-books.uk/books/
Ralph Ellis has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 56: New Revelations About the Old Testament with Ralph Ellis
January 18th, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 5 secs
history, mythology, religion, theology
Why are so many of the famous biblical characters missing from the historical record? Forty years ago, the intrepid and dogged researcher Ralph Ellis decided to find out. Does this biblical lacuna mean that both the Old and New Testaments are fictional, as many people have claimed? Or are we simply looking in the wrong locations or perhaps even the wrong eras?
The first glimmer of the truth was not hard to see, for even the 1st century Romo-Jewish historian Josephus Flavius claimed that the Israelites were the Hyksos pharaohs of Egypt. In which case the Book of Exodus may well be correct, from a historical context, but both theologians and historians were looking in the wrong era. Upon further investigation it transpired that Josephus was correct: the biblical Hyksos-Israelite Exodus was a real historical event.
From this small kernel of truth, the entire biblical epic has now been transformed from mystic mythology into a central component of real secular history. All the way from Genesis to Revelations, this simple but rational reevaluation technique became the foundation for much of Ralph’s work. Join me through a fascinating re-visioning of key Biblical events and personages.