Joseph spent a lifetime building trust inside the most powerful empire in the ancient world. Exodus 1 undoes it in a sentence.

"There arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph." It sounds like forgetting. But political forgetting is almost never accidental—and Egypt was very, very good at it.

In Part 6 of You've Heard It Said, we move into Goshen and into one of the most politically loaded chapters in all of Scripture. We look at what it actually meant for a new regime to erase a legacy, why the Hebrews went from protected guests to a perceived threat overnight, and what two midwives named Shiphrah and Puah have to do with the politics of memory.

We also get into the timeline debate—the two major scholarly camps on when the Exodus happened and which pharaohs were involved — and what the archaeological evidence actually tells us. Including something I got to see firsthand at Karnak.

In this episode: the Hyksos hypothesis and its limits, the Merneptah Stele, demographic anxiety in the ancient world, why the Hebrews did not build the pyramids, and what an Egyptologist told me on my recent trip that completely reframed how I read this chapter.

You've Heard It Said: where faith meets history, and the stories we thought we knew come alive.

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